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    Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European...
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    including Matthäus Merian the Younger. Maria Magdalena de Bry died in 1645 and the following year Matthäus married Johanna Sibylla Heim. Five years later...
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    used in biological pest control. The 17th-century zoological artist Maria Sibylla Merian closely observed parasitoids and their hosts in her paintings. The...
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    "bird-eating" derives from an early 18th-century copper engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian that shows one eating a hummingbird. Despite the spider's name, it...
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    is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Maria Sibylla Merian in her 1705 publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, and...
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  • Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621–1687), Swiss painter Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), naturalist and scientific illustrator Johann Bernhard Merian (1723–1807)...
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    publishers in the 17th century. Matthäus Merian's daughter was the naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian. The family name is not limited to Basel...
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  • Maria Graff was born in Nuremberg as the daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them and her...
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    Johanna Helena Herolt (category Merian family)
    similar to her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian, with her draftsmanship. Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas...
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    moth (Meriansborstel) comes from the butterfly and insect painter Maria Sibylla Merian. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th...
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