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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Kricheldorff, A.
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
A. Kricheldorff was a 19th-century Berlin-based natural history dealer and supplier who provided biological and entomological specimens—such as butterflies and birds—to institutions like the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and international archives during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Correspondence and transaction receipts involving A. Kricheldorff from around 1895 are preserved in museum and institutional archives (such as the Natural History Museum records), documenting the trade of butterflies and scientific specimens.