Roger von Ruttershausen
Roger von Ruttershausen (born February 10, 1727 in Donauwörth ; † May 6, 1782 in Linz ) was an Austrian civil servant.
Von Ruttershausen was a lawyer and worked in Linz as a real district administrator in the government of Austria ob der Enns , book censor and assessor of the kk religious consess.
He owned a large collection of minerals and petrefacts and corresponded with numerous mineral dealers and natural scientists in Europe, so u. a. with Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch . After his death, Abbot Erenbert Meyer's collection was acquired for the Kremsmünster Abbey in Upper Austria and became the basis of its geological collection.
Publications
- Defense of the twelve letters of Mr. P. Seedorf, against the answer from an anonymous person from Tubingen . 2 volumes. Vienna 1752
literature
- Ignaz de Luca : The learned Austria . Vol. 1, 2, Vienna 1776, pp. 71-72 ( digitized version ).
- Sigmund Fellöcker: History of the observatory of the Benedictine abbey in Kremsmünster . Linz 1864, p. 135ff. ( Digitized version ).
- 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 , p. 192 ( digitized version ).
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| SURNAME | Ruttershausen, Roger von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ruttershausen, Rogerius von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian district administrator, book censor, assessor of the kk religious consess, mineral collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Donauwörth |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1782 |
| Place of death | Linz |