Vinzeze Maria Gredler

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Vinzenz Maria Gredler (30 September 1823, Telfs near Innsbruck - 4 May 1912 , Bolzano) was an Italian naturalist.

Gredler, who was a Dominican friar, first studied classics (1835 - 1841) then philosophy and theology (1842 -1848). He then studied natural sciences at the Gymnasium in Halle (1848 - 1849). Without other qualifications, he succeeded in gaining a natural history diploma. He then became director of the Franciscan Gymnasium in Bolzano from 1849 to 1901.

Gredler wrote 338 publications on various subjects: geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, insects), art, anthropology, history, etc. He made numerous excursions in the Haut Adige and the Tyrol and had a rich natural history collection with the aid of the other semianarists and his pupils. This is today conserved in the museum of the Gymnasium of Bolzano (or Museo Tirolese di Scienze Naturali del Ginnasio dei Padri Francescani).

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• Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382.
• Pietro Lorenzi & Silvio Bruno (2002). Uomini, storie, serpenti contributi alla storiografia erpetologica del Trentino-Alto Adige e Dintorni. Annali del Museo Civico di Rovereto, 17 : 173-274.

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