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Johann Rudolph Schellenberg


Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (4 January 1740, Basel – 8 June 1806, Töss, a district in the city of Winterthur) was a Swiss artist, writer and entomologist best known for his illustrations of insects.

During his career he performed illustrative work for Johann Heinrich Sulzer, Johannes Gessner, Johann Kaspar Lavater and Johann Kaspar Füssli. He illustrated a number of entomological works, a few being:

In 1806 he circumscribed the suborder Adephaga (Order Coleoptera). The municipal library in Winterthur has about 4000 of his insect watercolors.



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