Burchard crane

Martin Frobisher is one of the sponsors of Burchard Kranich

Burchard Kranich , also known as Doctor Burcot , (* around 1515 ; † 1578 ) was a German-English mining engineer and doctor . He came from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and was the personal physician of Hermann V. von Wied . Together with this and the Count of Stolberg he was in 1547 a. a. involved in the establishment of the Society of Noble Living Self-Walking Water Art. After increasing failures, he settled in England, where he invested in various mining companies in Derbyshire and Cornwall and looked for gold. Most recently he returned to his old profession as a doctor and practiced in London , where he a. a. Elizabeth I treated.

literature

MB Donald: Burchard Kranich (c. 1515–1578), Miner and Queen's Physician. In: Annals of Science. vi, 1950, pp. 308-322.

Individual evidence

↑ Jörg Brückner : The Counts of Stolberg as a coal and steel entrepreneur at the beginning of the early modern period , in: Adel in Sachsen-Anhalt , 2007, p. 269ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Crane, Burchard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Doctor Burcot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-English doctor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1515
DATE OF DEATH	1578

[1] Jörg Brückner : The Counts of Stolberg as a coal and steel entrepreneur at the beginning of the early modern period , in: Adel in Sachsen-Anhalt , 2007, p. 269ff.