Person

Krefft, Johann Ludwig Gerard (Gerard) (1830 - 1881)

Born
17 February 1830
Brunswick, Germany
Died
19 February 1881
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Zoologist and Museum curator

Summary

Johann Krefft was naturalist to the Victorian Government Collecting Expedition to northern Victoria under Wilhelm Blandowski 1857-1858, and was Assistant Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney 1860-1864 and then Curator 1864-1876.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft - Records, 1872 - 1874, MS 021; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Australian Museum

  • Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft - Records, 1861 - 1877, Series 28; Australian Museum. Details
  • Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft - Records, 1861 - 1899, Series 48; Australian Museum. Details
  • Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft - Records, Series 160; Australian Museum. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft - Records, 1859 - 1881, ML MSS 956; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft - Records, 1874 - 1877, MS 3321; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Krefft, Gerard, The snakes of Australia : an illustrated and descriptive catalogue of all the known species (Sydney: Government Printer, 1869), 100 pp. Details
  • Krefft, Gerard, The mammals of Australia illustrated by Harriett Scott and Helena Forde for the Council of Education : with a short account of all the species hitherto described (Sydney: Government Printer, 1871), 45 pp. Details
  • Krefft, Gerard, Catalogue of the minerals and rocks in the collection of the Australian Museum (Sydney: Government Printer, 1873), 115 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Whitley, G. P.; Rutledge, Martha, 'Krefft, Johann Ludwig (Louis) Gerard (1830-1881), zoologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 42-44. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050051b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Allen, Harry,, 'Native Companions: Blandowski, Krefft and the Aborigines on the Murray River Expedition', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 121 (2009), 129-45. Details
  • Kean, John, 'Observing Mondellimin, or When Gerard Krefft "Saved Once More the Honour of the Exploring Expedition"', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 121 (2009), 109-28. Details
  • Nancarrow, Nan, 'Gerard Krefft: a Singular Man', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 121 (2009), 146-54. Details
  • Turnbull, Paul, 'Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history', Museum & society, 13 (1) (2015), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.318. Pages 75, 76, 81. Details
  • Whitley, G. P., 'The Life and Work of Gerard Krefft', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (1958), 21-34. Details
  • Witley, G. P., 'Gerard Krefft and His Bibliography', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (1967). Details

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See also

  • Finney, Vanessa, Capturing nature: early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857 - 1893 (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2019), 199 pp. Details
  • Moyal, Ann: with Robert E. Marks, 'The scientists and Darwin's The origin of species in nineteenth century Australia: a re-evaluation', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 152 (1) (2019), 5-26. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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