Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati

Friedrich Anton [ August ] Rudolph Kolenati, Czech Bedřich Antonín KOLENATY ( born September 12, 1812 in Prague, † July 17, 1864 at Praděd ) was an Austrian physician, naturalist and patron. Its effect focus was in St. Petersburg, Prague and Moravia.

Life

Kolenati studied at the Prague University of Medicine and completed his doctorate in 1836 in this area. After this graduation, he was hired in the Biology Department at his university as an assistant. To expand his knowledge, Kolenati went to Saint Petersburg and took in 1842 at the Imperial Academy, a position as assistant of Zoology on. During this three -year stay in Russia research travels took him with zoological and botanical interest in the Caucasus and neighboring regions. When he returned to Prague in 1845, he took over at the high school of the district Lesser Town, the site of an associate professor.

At the revolution events in 1848 Kolenati participated actively. As a member of a delegation, he traveled to Vienna. As a result of a mistake he was then briefly detained in Prague. Already habilitated in 1848 Kolenati at Prague University in the field of pharmaceutical medical zoology and botany as well as crystallography. He then took a semester 1849-1850 at the Prague Polytechnic professor of botany, zoology and mineralogy because the previous chair of Franz Xaver Zippe went as the new director of the mining school in Pribram.

His work in Prague was only of short duration. Kolenati followed on the basis of an imperial decree dated December 29, 1849 an appointed professor of natural history at the Imperial Technical Institute in Brno.

Friedrich A. Kolenati is the founder and the first chairman of the company founded in Prague in 1848 the Natural History Association " lotus ".

During a stay in Altvatergebirge he died unexpectedly. His grave is located in Malá Morávka.

Memberships

• Associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Bohemia (since January 2, 1848 )

Selected Works

• The minerals of Moravia and Austrian Silesia their sites and economic- technical use. Prague ( Buschak & Irrgang ) 1854
• F. A. Kolenati: travel memories. First Part: The Bereisung high of Armenia and Elisabethopols, the Schekinschen Province and of Mount Kazbek in the Central Caucasus. Dresden 1858