Georg Ludwig Kriegk

Georg Ludwig Kriegk (February 25, 1805 – May 28, 1878) 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.

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