Georg Ludwig Kriegk (February 25, 1805 – May 28, 1878) was a German historian and

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born in

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. He studied history and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

at the Universities of

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

and

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

, and from 1825 spent several years working as a tutor to a patrician family in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. In 1834 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Marburg, subsequently working as a private scholar in Frankfurt. Here he was a member of several learned societies, giving lectures in the fields of ethnology,

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and history. Beginning in 1848 he taught classes at the municipal high school in Frankfurt, also serving as chairman of the school association. In 1863 he was appointed

to the city of Frankfurt, a position he maintained until his retirement in 1875. Kriegk was an avid

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, conducting excavations of the ancient Roman settlement of Nida, located in the present-day district of

Heddernheim Heddernheim is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the '' Ortsbezirk Nord-West'' and is subdivided into the ''Stadtbezirke'' Heddernheim-Ost and Heddernheim-West. History Antiquity The Roman town of Nida (Roman town) was situ ...

Written works

Kriegk was a prolific author, publishing works on the history of medieval city republics, books on the history of Frankfurt am Main, and writings about Frankfurt native

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...

. In addition, he edited the first edition of

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (17 November 1776 – 23 September 1861) was a German historian, Professor of History at the University of Heidelberg and a Privy Councillor in Prussia. Early years He was born at Jever Jever () is the capital of ...

's ''Weltgeschichte für das deutsche Volk'' (World History for the German People). A few of his better known publications are as follows: * ''Frankfurter Bürgerzwiste und Zustände im Mittelalter'' (Frankfurt citizenry and states of strife in the

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, (1862) * ''Deutsches Bürgerthum im Mittelalter'' (German bourgeoisie in the Middle Ages 1868/1871) * ''Die Brüder Senckenberg, nebst einem Anhang über Goethes Jugendzeit'' (The Brothers Senckenberg, with an appendix on Goethe's youth, 1869) * ''Geschichte von Frankfurt am Main in ausgewählten Darstellungen'' (History of Frankfurt am Main in selected images, 1871) * ''Deutsche Kulturbilder aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, mit einem Anhang: Goethe als Rechtsanwalt'' (German cultural images from the 18th Century, with an appendix: Goethe as a lawyer, 1874)

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@ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon {{DEFAULTSORT:Kriegk, Georg Ludwig 19th-century German historians German archivists University of Marburg alumni 1805 births 1878 deaths Writers from Darmstadt Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers