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Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs
Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (19 July 1792 - 11 May 1844) was a German apothecary and natural history collector who spent most of his career in Cape Colony. Life and career He was born in Wittingen, then a part of Electorate of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Johan Krebs and Cecilia Engtlingen, and brother to Sophie Margaretha Dorothea Krebs and Georg Krebs. Soon after qualifying as apothecary, he was recruited to work in South Africa by the firm of ''Pallas & Poleman'' of Cape Town. Arriving in May 1817, Krebs started collecting, often in the company of Karl Heinrich Bergius who died at age 28 of pulmonary tuberculosis in January 1818, poverty-stricken and abandoned by his former sponsors and employers. Krebs also got to know and collected in the company of Mund and Maire, Joachim Brehm, Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso, von Chamisso, Pierre Antoine Delalande, Delalande, and Dr. William Gill, who became a close friend and medical adviser during their stay in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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