Johann Carl Semper
1796–1881
German merchant and manufacturer. Of Altona. Father of Carl Gottfried Semper, and brother of the architect Gottfried Semper.
Sources
DSB s.v. Semper, Carl Gottfried
NDB s.v. Semper, Gottfried
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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