Heinrich Ludwig Petersen was a German painter and engraver (especially on copper), and worked as a conservator of the collection of art in honour of Dürer that had been made in Nuremberg.
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He was born in Altona the son of a merchant, studied at the Dresden Academy of Art, moving to Nuremberg in 1830.
He died unexpectedly in 1874.
These notes weere compiled from several sources, but see Petersen, Heinrich, in the Deutsche Biographie for a much longer biography.
