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Jakob Wilhelm Roux (13 April 1771 Jena – 22 August 1830 Heidelberg) was a German painter and draughtsman.Roux was born to a Huguenot family. He studied mathematics for a time at the University of Jena. He later enrolled in the university of Christian Immanuel Oehme where his interests and classes turned to the arts. It was while studying there that he met the surgeon Justus Christian Loder with whom he collaborated with.