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Last Name Seeländer

Given Name Nikolaus

alt. Names N. S. ; Nicolaus / Nicolai / N. Seeländer / Seelander / Seelaender ;

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Year born 1682 in Erfurt

Year died 1744

Place of death Hannover

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Education apprentice to a locksmith; autodidactic specialization on copper engraving & medal-making;

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716): Protogaea sive de prima facie telluris et antiquissimae historiae vestigiis (ed. by Christian Ludwig Scheidt, Göttingen: sumptibus Ioh. Guil. Schmidii, 1749, with 12 plates, 3 by N. S., incl. plate XII with a unicorn reconstruction) ; Rosinus: Crinoiden (1719) ;

Patronage Kingdom of Hanover, duke and elector of Hanover George I (1660-1727) & Royal Library Hannover: library copper engraver since1716; Leibniz;

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Techniques geological, paleontological, zoological, archaeological, historical, and topographical copperplate and steel engraving, and drawing ; ...

Sample(s) www.strangescience.net/enlar/en_unicorn.jpg ; http://historiadageologia.blogspot.de/2006/03/gravuras-de-fsseis-na-protogaea-de.html ;

Archival sources Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek Göttingen; http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LotDetailsPrintable.aspx?intObjectID=3747022 ;

Published sources Nagler XVI: 201 ; DBA ; ThB 30 1936 ; Nissen 1969/78: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 2428 & 3478 ; Langer 1978: 374 & 384 ; Eduard Bodemann: N.S. Kur-Hannoverscher Bibliotheks-Kupferstecher, in: Zs. d. hist. Vereins f. Niedersachsen 55 (1890):169-80 ;

other active in Hannover; cf. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Seel%C3%A4nder. Further Pubsource: R. Oberschelp: Kupferstichplatten in der Leibniz-Bibliothek, Hameln 2005, 16-24.

Further techniques: medal engraving, coin minting, and instrument making.

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