Georg Ludwig Kriegk

Who was Georg Ludwig Kriegk?

Georg Ludwig Kriegk was a German historian and archivist born in Darmstadt.

He studied history and philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Giessen, and from 1825 spent several years working as a tutor to a patrician family in Frankfurt am Main. 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, geography 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 archivist to the city of Frankfurt, a position he maintained until his retirement in 1875.

Kriegk was an avid archaeologist, conducting excavations of the ancient Roman settlement of Nida, located in the present-day district of Heddernheim.