Franz Brattina
Franz Brattina (born June 29, 1825 in St. Thomas , Haidenschaft district , Slovenia ; † January 8, 1890 in Vienna ) was an Austrian employee of the Imperial and Royal Court Mineral Cabinet and the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
Brattina was a trained miller . In 1848/49 he took part in the campaigns in Italy. In 1850 he came to the Hofburg Guard . In 1859, he started as a court servant at the court minerals cabinet. He worked there as a collector and taxidermist . Brattina was involved in the reorganization of the geological-paleontological collection in the new building of the Natural History Museum at the Burgring and was retired in 1886. In the vicinity of Vienna he collected young tertiary remains of mammals for the museum .
literature
- Theodor Fuchs : In memory of Franz Brattina . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 5, 1890, pp. 77–79 ( PDF; 298 kB )
- Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae. Supplementum (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15a). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0948-2 , pp. 154–155 ( PDF; 842 kB )
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| SURNAME | Brattina, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian employee of the kk Hof-Mineralien-Kabinett and the Natural History Museum in Vienna |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Thomas , Haidenschaft District , Slovenia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1890 |
| Place of death | Vienna |