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JOSEPH WOLF (1820-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH
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WOLF (1820-1899)  , Anglo-
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German artist, the son of a German
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farmer, was
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born in 1820 at Munstermaifeld, on the
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river Moselle, in the
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Rhine
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Province . In his boyhood he was an assiduous student cf
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bird and
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animal
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life, and showed a remark-able capacity as a draughtsman of natural
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history subjects . His
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powers were first recognized by
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Professor
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Schlegel of the
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Leiden museum, who gave him employment as an illustrator . In 1848 he settled in
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London, where he remained till his
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death on the loth of
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April 1899 . He made many drawings for the Zoological Society, and a very large number of illustrations for books on natural history and on travel in various countries; but he also won a considerable success as a painter . See A . H .
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Palmer, The Life of
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Joseph
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Wolf (London, 1895) .

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