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Authorised form of name	Krieg; David (1669 - 1710); physician and plant collector
Dates	1669 - 1710
Nationality	German
Place of birth	Annaberg, Germany, Europe
Date of birth	1669
Place of death	Riga, Latvia, Europe
Date of death	23 July 1710
Occupation	Physician
Research field	Botany
Activity	Education: MD University of Leipzig (1691-1694) Career: Moved to London (1696); travelled from Europe to the United States at the same time as the Englishman William Vernon, travelled separately, both under the patronage of James Petiver (FRS 1695) and Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685) (1698); returned to Riga (1699); Garrison Physician in Riga, Latvia (1705); First Physician (1707).
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	11/01/1699
Age at election	30
Proposer	Sir Hans Sloane
Relationships	Spouse: Margaretha Rademacher Children: Margarethe Krieg
OtherInfo	Collected Spermatophytes. Associate of: Petiver, James (FRS 1695) (specimens to) Vernon, William (c. 1666-1711) (co-collector) His and Vernon's specimens were sent from Sloane to Ray who struggled to identify many of them and sorted them by taxa, regardless of collector, so that now it is difficult to tell which was collected by which. They were, however, of some use to him in the final volume of his Historia Plantarum (1704).
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Hunter; BaBI Notes: Last in 1712 list according to Hunter.
Code	NA3308

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