Julius Platzmann

Karl Julius Platzmann was a German botanical illustrator, writer, and bibliophile who published exact facsimile editions of rare early missionary books related to several American indigenous languages. Platzmann first studied as an artist, and travelled to Brazil, where he created hundreds of botanical illustrations. He later returned to Germany, where he would spend the rest of a very private life collecting rare books, writing, and editing facsimile editions of rare early works in and about American languages. Publication of these works made documentation of several such languages available to a much broader audience.