Anton Rollett

Anton Franz Rollett , 1824.

Georg Anton Rollett (also: Anton Franz Rollett ; born August 2, 1778 in Baden , Lower Austria; † March 19, 1842 ibid) was an Austrian doctor, natural scientist and collector.

Life

Rollett, who came from a poor background, apprenticed to a surgeon when he was 13. In 1795 he got the opportunity to study at the General Hospital in Vienna. In the following years he was able to take exams for surgery, obstetrics and veterinary medicine. From 1799 he practiced in Piesting . Two years later, however, he moved to Baden, where he became known as a health resort doctor and often ordained for the poor free of charge - for example at the Marienspital in Baden. As a district court doctor, for example, he autopsied the body of the actor Ferdinand Raimunds after his suicide.

He owned an extensive collection that was donated to the City of Baden in 1867 and forms the basis of the Rollett Museum there . The collection contains, among other things, a herbarium (more than 14,000 plant species), as well as archaeological, ethnographic, technological, mineralogical, botanical and zoological objects. In 1825 the doctor Franz Joseph Gall gave him all of his works as well as the phrenological skull and bust collection that had been left behind in Vienna .

Anton Rollett was the father of the poet Hermann Rollett and the grandfather of the medical doctor Alexander Rollett .

Fonts

• Small flora and fauna of Baden , 1805.
• Schematism of the princely city of Baden in Lower Austria , 1805.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Rollett, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 303–305 ( digitized version ).
• Alfred Frühwald: Anton Franz Rollett (1778–1842). Doctor, writer, naturalist, art lover . In: Johann Kräftner (Ed.): In the shadow of the Weilburg. Bathing in Biedermeier. An exhibition by the municipality of Baden in Frauenbad from September 23, 1988 to January 31, 1989 . Grasl, Baden 1988, ISBN 3-85098-186-X , pp. 37-39.
• A. Frühwald:  Rollett (Georg) Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 228.

Web links

• Entry on Rollett, (Georg) Anton in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Anton Franz Rollett in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )