!!!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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