GeorgWolfgang Franz Panzer was a Germanbotanist and entomologist. He was born at Etzelwang in the Upper Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg. He was the son of , one of the most distinguished and productive of German bibliographers, whose Annales Typographici were published between 1793 and 1803. A physician, he practised at Hersbruck. A celebrated botanist, he had a very species-rich herbarium. He also assembled a very important insect collection which was the basis of a vast work Faunae insectorum germanicae initia, published at Nuremberg between 1796 and 1813. Illustrated by Jacob Sturm, with more than 2,600 hand-colored plates of individual, lifesize insects, this work was issued in 109 parts over the 17-year period of its serial publication, a common pattern for illustrated natural history works in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Works
1781: Observationum Botanicarum specimen
1783: Beytrag zur Geschichte des ostindischen Brodbaums, mit einer systematischen Beschreibung desselben … Nebst einer Kupfertafel
1787: Versuch einer natürlichen Geschichte der Laub- und Lebermoosse nach Schmidelschen-Schreberschen und Hedwigschen Beobachtungen
1793–1813: Faunae Insectorum Germanicae Initia, oder Deutschlands Insecten, 109 Teile, 2640 Kupfertafeln von Jacob Sturm, herausgegeben von Dr G. W. F. Panzer. Zweyte Auflage. Dr G. A. W. Herrich-Schaffer
1794: Faunae Insectorum Americes Borealis prodomus, etc.
1795: Deutschlands Insectenfaune oder entomologisches Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1795
1802: Symbolae Entomologicae … Cum tabulis XII. aeneis
1802: Viro … venerabili G. W. Panzero parenti suo … gratulatur, simulque quaedam de D. J. G. Volcamero, … additis duabus ad illum epistolis H. Boerhaave et I. Pitt Tournefort, … exponit D. G. W. F. Panzer
1804: Systematische Nomenclatur uber weiland … J. C. Schaeffers naturlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten, etc.
1805: Kritische Revision der Insektenfaune Deutschlands
1813: Index entomologicus sistens omnes insectorum species in G. W. F. Panzeri Fauna Insectorum Germanica descriptas atque delineatas … adjectis … observationibus. Pars 1. Eleutherata
1813: Ideen zu einer künftigen Revision der Gattungen der Gräser. L.P.
