!!!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
OeBL; NDB.



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