Felix Philipp Kanitz

Felix Philipp Kanitz ( born August 2, 1829 in Budapest, † January 5, 1904 in Vienna ) was an Austro- Hungarian naturalist, archaeologist and ethnologist.

Biography

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

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

Afterlife

2010 founded the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of East European History at Vienna University and other institutions, the Serbian- Austrian Felix Kanitz Club. It aims to promote regional cultural relations and educational and scientific cooperation. The association is led by scientists from several countries.

2011, an exhibition at the National Museum in Belgrade was dedicated to him.

Writings

  • Serbia's Byzantine monuments. Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1862 ( digitized ).
  • About Old and neuserbische church architecture. A contribution to the history of art. Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1864 ( digitized in the Google Book Search ).
  • Serbia. Historical- ethnographic travel studies. Fries, Leipzig 1868 ( digitized in the Google Book Search ).
  • Catechism of the ornamentation or guide to the history, evolution and characteristic forms of the most important ornament style of all time. Weber, Leipzig 1870. Fourth Edition 1891.
  • Danube Bulgaria and the Balkans. Historical- geographical- ethnographic journey studies from the years 1860 to 1879. 3 volumes. Fries, Leipzig from 1875 to 1879. 2, revised edition Renger, Leipzig 1882 (vol. 1/2, Vol 3 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Roman studies in Serbia: the Danube border wall, the road network, the cities, Castelle, monuments, spas and mines in Roman times in the Kingdom of Serbia. F. Tempsky, Vienna 1892.
  • The Kingdom of Serbia and the Serb people from Roman times to the present. 2 vols. Meyer, Leipzig from 1904 to 1909.
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