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Last Name Burger

Given Name Heinrich

alt. Names H. B. ; Heinrich Bürger / H. Burger / botanical shortname: Bürger ;

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Year born 1804 / 1806 in Hameln

Year died 1858

Place of death Indramaju (Java), Indonesia

Father's occupation Bürger

Relatives

Education Dr. phil chemistry & pharmacology, mineralogy

Country of Activity Japan

Worked for Jan Cock Blomhoff (1779-1853) ; physician, naturalist, and traveller Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866): Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern, Jezo mit den südlichen Kurilen, Sachalin, Korea und den Liukiu-Inseln (2 volumes, Leiden 1832) ;

Patronage Dejima Factory ; Dutch East India Company ;

Collaborators artist C. de Villeneuve ; artist Kawahara ; artist Ishizaki Yushi ;

Techniques natural and landscape painting and drawing

Sample(s) http://www.japanartsandcrafts.com/kawaharakeiga.html ;

Archival sources Ruhr-Universität Bochum Siebold collection ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Bürger ;

Published sources W. Müller-Yokota, Vera Schmidt & Victoria Eschbach-Szabo: Dokumente Siebold Austellung 1935: 247-8 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Japan (Nagasaki, Dejima), and Indonesia. Illustrator for Siebold in Japan; modified his surname to Burger upon becoming Dutch.

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