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Last Name Glassbach / Glaßbach

Given Name Christian Benjamin

alt. Names G. B. G. ; Christian Benjamin Glassbach Sr. / C. B. Glassbach / Glaßbach / Glasbach

Marriage

Children engraver ->Carl Christian Glassbach (1751- c. 1789) ; Joh. Benjamin Glassbach (1757-1xxx)

Year born 1724 in Magdeburg

Year died 1779

Place of death Berlin

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education pupil of Georg Paul Busch in Berlin

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Joh. Gotthilf Müller ; J. F. Meckel: Dup monstrosa (1815) ; Joh. Gottlieb Walter: Anat. Beob. (1782) ; Walther: Trock Knochen ; Peter Simon Pallas: Spicilegia zoologica (1767-9) ; F. H. W. Martini & J. H. Chemnitz: system. Conchylien-Cabinet (1769-73/1829) ; Martini: Mannigfaltigkeiten (1770-3) ; J. Hawkesworth: See-Reisen SüdMeer (1774) ; George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788); Pierre Philippe Emile Matheron (1807-1899)

Patronage Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften: Zeichner der Akademie 1798-1806.

Collaborators artist Johann Bernhard Gottfried Hopffer, ; artist Schouman ; artist Hiller ; artist ->Andreas Friedrich Happe ; engraver Berger ; Carl Christian Glassbach (son) ;

Techniques anatomical, zoological, malacological & botanical drawing, copperplate engraving, etching, and reproduction engraving

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Archival sources

Published sources AKL 56 2007: 52 ; ThB 14 1921: 241f. ; Choulant 1920: 310 ; Kärin Nickelsen: Zeichner Stecher, in: Berichte Wissenschaftsgesch. 29, 2006 ; Nickelsen 2007: 166 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Becker 2015: 143-145 ;

other Active in Berlin as draughtsman of the Prussian academy of sciences 1798-1806

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