Johann Daniel Wilhelm Hartmann

Ampullaceana ampla a mollusc described by Hartmann

Johann Daniel Wilhelm Hartmann (12 January 1793 in St. Gallen– 18 April 1862 St. Gallen) was a Swiss painter, engraver and malacologist. He was the son of Georg Leonhard Hartmann (1764-1828), who was also a painter. After training in fine arts with his father in Zurich, Munich and Bern, he worked in St. Gallen from 1826 as a naturalist and miniature painter, heraldist and genealogist.

He wrote

• Hartmann, J. D. W. 1821.System der Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden Europa's: in besonderer Hinsicht auf diejenigen Gattungen, welche in Deutschland und der Schweitz angetroffen werden.Nürnberg. Bei Jacob Sturm, 1821.
• Hartmann, J. D. W. 1844. Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden der Schweiz. Mit Zugabe einiger merkwürdigen exotischen Arten. I. Band. - pp. i-xx [= 1-20], 1–227, Tab. I-XII [= 1-12], I-XII [sic, = 13-24], 25–84. St. Gallen. (Scheitlin & Zollikofer).Archive

Taxa described by Hartmann include Discus ruderatus, Ampullaceana ampla, Trochulus clandestinus, Bythiospeum acicula, Papillifera ....

References

• Marcel Mayer: Hartmann, Johann Daniel Wilhelm. Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
• B. B. Woodward, 1906 On the dates of publication of J. D. Wilhelm Hartmann's “Erd- und Süsswasser-Gastropoden”, St. Gallen, 1840. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7, 1906
• D. Heppell,1966 The dates of publication of J. D. W. Hartmann's ‘Erd- und Süsswasser-Gasteropoden’. Journal of Conchology 26, 1966 84–88.