death_place death_date work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date article_title name
york , pennsylvania 23 may 1876 religious york -rrb- minister -lrb- kreutz creek -rrb- religious minister -lrb- reading , pennsylvania american entomology 11 june 1804 daniel ziegler
 daniel ziegler
daniel ziegler

rev. daniel ziegler -lrb- june 11 , 1804 reading , pennsylvania -- may 23 , 1876 york , pennsylvania -rrb- was a minister in kreutz creek and york , pennsylvania , and also an avid entomologist .
he was a friend of dr. frederick ernst melsheimer -lrb- 1782 -- 1873 -rrb- , who like his father the rev. frederick valentine melsheimer -lrb- 1749 -- 1814 -rrb- , was also a keen entomologist .
their collections ended up in a harvard university museum , and comprised 14,774 specimens from 5,302 different species .
ziegler studied at the university of pennsylvania and , later , theology at the german reformed seminary in york .
he was the minister for 37 years of kraeutz-creek church near york as well as up to eight other churches .
with his wife , eve eyster , he had 10 children , including son dr. h. a. ziegler .
it was during his time as minister at kraeutz-creek that he began studying entomology .
he often accompanied his father on insect-collecting excursions , using the beat net method of collecting , uncommon in america at the time .
rev. ziegler 's only entomological paper , a description of 36 new species of coleoptera , was published for the assistance of dr. melsheimer , whose home was close to one of rev. ziegler 's churches .
