Hacquet de la Motte, Belsazar#
Hacquet de la Motte, Belsazar, b. Le Conquet (France), 1739 (1740?), d. Vienna, Jan. 10, 1815, specialist in folklore studies, physician, scientist, pioneer of alpine geology. 1773 professor of medicine in Laibach (Ljubljana), 1785 in Lvív (Lemberg), after his retirement (1810) in Vienna. His work marked the beginning of the ethnic studies and ethnology of the ethnic groups of the Habsburg monarchy.
Works#
Physikalische Erdbeschreibung des Herzogtums Krain, Istrien ..., 4 vols., 1778-1789; Plantae Alpinae Carniolicae, 1782; Abbildung und Beschreibung der suedwestlichen und oestlichen Wenden, Illyrer und Slawen, 5 vols., 1802-1805.Literature#
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