Background
He was a friend of Doctor Frederick Ernst Melsheimer (1782–1873), who like his father the Review Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (1749–1814), was also a keen entomologist.
He was a friend of Doctor Frederick Ernst Melsheimer (1782–1873), who like his father the Review Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (1749–1814), was also a keen entomologist.
Ziegler studied at the University of Pennsylvania and, later, theology at the German Reformed Seminary in New York
Their collections ended up in a Harvard University museum, and comprised 14,774 specimens from 5,302 different species. He was the minister for 37 years of Kraeutz-Creek Church near York as well as up to eight other churches. lieutenant 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 Netto method of collecting, uncommon in America at the time.
Ziegler"s only entomological paper, a description of 36 new species of Coleoptera, was published for the assistance of Doctor Melsheimer, whose home was close to one of Ziegler"s churches. There was nothing whatever eventful in his life, and besides his few entomological contributions, he was nothing more than a plain, plodding, honest country parson.
