Gerhard Christoph von Krogh
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Gerhard Christoph von Krogh (10 October 1785 – 12 April 1860) was a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 military officer.

The son of Friderich Ferdinand von Krogh and Rosina Elizabeth von Frankenberg, on 6 February 1813 he married Siegfriede Victorine Knuth.
Von Krogh led the Danish troops in the Battle of Isted
Battle of Isted
The Battle of Isted took place on July 25, 1850, near the village of Idstedt, today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The battle was part of the First Schleswig War....

. The memorial Isted Lion
Isted Lion
The Isted Lion , or ) is a Danish war monument originally intended as a monument of the Danish victory over Schleswig-Holstein in the Battle of Isted on July 25, 1850 — at its time the largest battle in Scandinavian history...

 is partly dedicated to von Krogh.
Kroghsgade in Århus is named after him.
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