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Authorised form of nameKrieg; David (1669 - 1710); physician and plant collector
Dates1669 - 1710
NationalityGerman
Place of birthAnnaberg, Germany, Europe
Date of birth1669
Place of deathRiga, Latvia, Europe
Date of death23 July 1710
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election11/01/1699
Age at election30
ProposerSir Hans Sloane
RelationshipsSpouse: Margaretha Rademacher
Children: Margarethe Krieg
General contextCollected 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).
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hunter; BaBI
Notes:
Last in 1712 list according to Hunter.
Royal Society codeNA3308
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