Felix Philipp Kanitz

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Felix Kanitz

Felix Philipp Kanitz (born August 2, 1829 in Pest , Austrian Empire ; † January 5, 1904 in Vienna ) was an Austro- Hungarian natural scientist, archaeologist and ethnologist .

biography

Kanitz came from a wealthy Jewish factory owner family in Pest. From 1846 he studied art at the University of Vienna , went to Germany, France, Belgium and Italy and began a series of research trips to the southern Slavs of the Balkan Peninsula in 1858 with a trip to Dalmatia , which he continued until 1889.

From 1870 to 1874 Kanitz was the first curator of the anthropological and natural history collection of the imperial family , which became part of the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

Afterlife

In 2010 the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences , the Institute for Eastern European History of the University of Vienna and other institutions founded the Serbian-Austrian Felix Kanitz Association . It is intended to promote regional cultural relationships and educational and scientific collaborations. The association is headed by scientists from several countries.

Since 2010 he has given its name to the Kanitz Nunatak in graham land in Antarctica. In 2011 an exhibition in the National Museum in Belgrade was dedicated to him.

Fonts

Monographs

  • 1861: The Roman finds in Serbia . kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna ( Google )
  • 1862: Serbia's Byzantine Monuments . kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna ( ETH Zurich )
  • 1864: About old and new Serbian church architecture. A contribution to art history. Vienna: kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei ( Google )
  • 1868: Journey to southern Serbia and northern Bulgaria. Executed in 1864 . Vienna: Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office ( Google )
  • 1868: Serbia. Historical-ethnographic travel studies from the years 1859–1868. Leipzig: Hermann Fries ( Google )
  • 1870: Catechism of ornamentation or guide on the history, development and characteristic forms of the most important ornament styles of all time. Leipzig: JJ Weber
    • Second, increased and improved edition 1877 udT Catechism of Ornamentation or guide to the history, development and characteristic forms of the most important ornament styles of all time . ( Google )
    • Fourth edition 1891
  • 1875–1879: Danube-Bulgaria and the Balkans. 3 volumes. Leipzig: Hermann Fries
    • Volume I: Historical-geographical-ethnographic travel studies from the years 1860–1875 (1875) ( Google ) ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) ( MDZ )
    • Volume II: Historical-geographical-ethnographic travel studies from the years 1860–1876 (1877) ( Google )
    • Volume III: Historical-geographical-ethnographic travel studies from the years 1860–1878 (1879, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) ( MDZ )
      • 1879–1880: Danube-Bulgaria and the Balkans. Historical-geographical-ethnographic travel studies from the years 1860–1879 . Second revised edition. 3 volumes. Hermann Fries, Leipzig (Volume I / II: 1879, Volume III: 1880)
      • 1882: Danube-Bulgaria and the Balkans. Historical-geographical-ethnographic travel studies from the years 1860–1879 . Second revised edition. 3 volumes. Renger, Leipzig ( Volume I / II  - Internet Archive - Volume III  - Internet Archive ). Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition, Leipzig
      • French edition in one volume 1882: La Bulgarie Danubienne et le Balkan. Études de voyage (1860-1880) . Hachette et C ie. , Paris ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  • 1892: Roman studies in Serbia: the Danube border wall, the road network, the cities, castles, monuments, thermal baths and mines in Roman times in the Kingdom of Serbia. F. Tempsky, Vienna
  • 1904–1914 (posthumously): The Kingdom of Serbia and the Serbs from Roman times to the present. 3 volumes. Leipzig: Bernhard Meyer

Essays, newspaper articles (selection)

  • 1862: From Belgrade to Salonik . In: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), 38, No. 973 (February 22, 1862), p. 122.
  • 1865: One day in Turkish captivity. Travel sketch . In: Slavische Blätter, Illustrirte Zeitschrift für die Gesammtinteressen des Slaventhums 1, Fasz. 4 (1865), pp. 185–194.
  • 1872: The peoples kaleidoscope on the Lom River in western Bulgaria . In: Globus. Illustrirte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde 21, No. 3 (January 1872), p. 41 f.
  • 1873: Travels in the Bulgarian Danube, Timok and Sveti Nikola Balkan regions . In: Mittheilungen der kk geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien 1872, Volume 15 (New Series 5) (1873), pp. 61–72, 105–112.
  • 1873: Travel sketches from Bulgaria . In: Illustrirte Zeitung 60, No. 1549 (March 8, 1873), pp. 172-174.
  • 1876: Myth and reality on the highest Balkan pass . In: Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), No. 4087 morning edition (January 12, 1876), p. 1 f.
  • 1876: The Eski-Džumaja Mass . In: Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient 2, Nr. 3 (March 1876), p. 33 f.
  • 1877: Elena's Balkan Pass . In: Mittheilungen der kais. And ko. geographical society in Vienna 20 (new series 10) (1877), pp. 537-543.
  • 1880: Spiritual and material relationships with Sofia . In: Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient 6, Nr. 3 (March 1880), pp. 41–46.
  • 1880: The Pontus port of Varna in May 1880 . In: Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient 6, Nr. 6 (June 1880), pp. 93-98.

literature

Web links

Commons : Drawings by Felix Kanitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrej Ivanji: Cultural heritage should never again justify enmity . In: Der Standard , January 4, 2011, p. 8.
  2. ↑ The rights to Kanitz's book came to Rengersche Buchhandlung after Fries' death. The edition from 1882, now published by Renger and with a significantly cheaper sales price than the edition by Fries, was only reluctantly "authorized" by Kanitz. a. because he had no means of taking action against it successfully.
personal data
SURNAME Kanitz, Felix Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian naturalist, archaeologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Pest , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1904
Place of death Vienna