Background
Krünitz was born in Berlin as the son of merchant Georg Christoph Krünitz.
Krünitz was born in Berlin as the son of merchant Georg Christoph Krünitz.
From 1747, he studied medicine and the natural sciences in Halle (Saale), Göttingen and Frankfurt (Oder).
Krünitz married Anna Sophie Lehmann in 1752 and moved to Berlin in 1759, where he continued to practice medicine until 1776. Krünitz died in Berlin in 1795 while working on volume 73 of his Enzyklopädie. The preface to this posthumously published volume contained the following macabre fact:.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
