!!!Felder, Cajetan Freiherr von

b. Vienna, Sept. 19, 1814, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 30, 1894, liberal politician, 1868-1878 Mayor of 
Vienna. Initiated the construction of the first  Vienna Spring Water 
Supply System, and of the  Rotunde (world exhibition building), laid 
the foundation stone of the New Town Hall, commissioned the regulation 
of the Danube, and established the  Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof) 
of Vienna; 1880-1884 Land Marshal of Lower Austria. F. was at the same 
time a naturalist and owned an internationally known collection of 
beetles and butterflies, which represents the basis of today's 
collection of beetles and butterflies at the Tring Museum in England.

!Publication
Erinnerungen eines Wiener Buergermeisters, ed. by F. 
Czeike, 1964.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Wien und seine Buergermeister, 1974.



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