Plures universitates frequentavit, inter quas Rostochiensem et Lugduno-Batavam. In expeditione Brasiliensi Batava ab anno 1637 participavit sub patronatu principis Ioannis Mauritii Nassaviensis.
Familia plantarum Marcgraviacearum genusque Marcgravia ad eius honorem nominantur.
"Georgius Marcgravius" in titulo operis 1648; "Georgius Markgraef" in titulo operis 1693
Elly Albertin, "Fauna und Flora der „Neuen Welt“. Die Irrfahrt von Zeichnungen Eckhouts, Pisos und Markgrafs" in Brasilien: Entdeckung und Selbstentdeckung (1992) pp. 82–88
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Eugene Willis Gudger, "George Marcgrave, the first student of American natural history" in Popular Science Monthly no. 81 (1912) pp. 250–274
Rodolpho von Ihering, "George Marcgrave: o primeiro sabio que veiu estudar a natureza do Brazil — 1638 a 44" in Revista do Museu Paulista vol. 9 (1914) pp. 307-315 Textus?
Bruce MacBryde, "Rediscovery of G. Marcgrave's Brazilian Collections (1638-1644)" in Taxon vol. 19 (1970) pp. 349–350 [www.jstor.org/stable/1219062 JSTOR]
Dante Martins Teixeira, "Die Naturgeschichte Brasiliens in der Regierungszeit Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen (1637–1644): Die Bücher von Georg Markgraf und Willem Piso" in Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen (1604–1679) der Brasilianer: Aufbruch in neue Welten (Siegen: Johann-Moritz-Gesellschaft, 2004) pp. -79–80-
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Neil Safier, "Beyond Brazilian Nature: The Editorial Itineraries of Marcgraf and Piso's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae" in Michiel Van Grosen, ed., The Legacy of Dutch Brazil (Novi Eboraci: Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp. 168-186 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
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P. J. P. Whitehead, "Georg Markgraf and Brazilian Zoology" in E. van den Boogaart, ed., Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, 1604- 1679: A Humanist Prince in Europe and Brazil (Hagae Comitum: Johan Maurits van Nassau Stichting, 1979) pp. 424-471