Meinrad von Gallenstein
Meinrad Thaurer von Gallenstein OSB (born March 24, 1811 in Graz , † August 3, 1872 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian Benedictine monk and naturalist.
Life
Franz Xaver von Gallenstein, son of Johann Thaurer Ritter von Gallenstein and Josepha geb. von Stari, entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul in 1830 , took the religious name Meinrad , took the religious vows on April 1, 1834 and was ordained a priest in 1834. Then he was a cooperator at the parish priesthood and from 1838 only provisional teacher and from 1840 professor at the collegiate high school and from 1844 professor at the public high school in Klagenfurt. In 1848 there was a conflict between several fathers, including Gallenstein, with Abbot Ferdinand Steinringer because of the high debt burden of the monastery. The Fathers had officially complained and the dismissal of the complainants from the order and as teachers was already being considered, but this did not happen in the end.
He collected and dealt with conchylia and butterflies from Carinthia and was the initiator of the establishment of the Natural History State Museum in Klagenfurt in 1846 . After Rudolf Sturany , he was the first serious researcher to study the fauna of Carinthia.
He was an external member of the natural research society in Bamberg and in 1853 became a member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna. He donated most of his collection of land and freshwater snails to the Carinthia State Museum, as well as other zoological collections, for example of reptiles and amphibians, but also minerals and fossils. He wrote a list of the mollusks in Carinthia (1852).
Fonts
- Systematic directory of the land and freshwater conchylia discovered in the province of Carinthia. Laibach 1848.
- Carinthia's land and freshwater conchylia. In: Yearbook of the Natural History State Museum of Carinthia. 1, 1852, 57-134.
Web links
- Gallenstein, P. Meinrad (Franz Xaver). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 394 f. (Direct links on p. 394 , p. 395 ).
- Rotraud Stumfohl: Landesmuseum Kärnten - the collections of natural sciences, pdf
- Marianne Klemun : Meinrad Thaurer von Gallenstein (1811–1872). In: Carinthia II. 181/101. Year, Klagenfurt 1991, pp. 5–19 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
Individual evidence
- ^ History of zoology in Austria from 1850 to 1900. Mollusks and tunicates, commemorative publication on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Imperial and Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna 1901, 381-406
- ^ Members of the natural research society in Bamberg, status May 1860 In: Fifth report of the natural research society in Bamberg, Reindl, Bamberg 1861 p. X archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gallenstein, Meinrad von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallenstein, Franz Xaver von (maiden name); Thaurer von Gallenstein, Franz Xaver (official birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Benedictine monk and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1872 |
| Place of death | Klagenfurt |