Schreibers, Karl Franz Anton von#
b. Bratislava, Slovakia (then Pressburg), Aug. 15, 1775, d. Vienna, May 21, 1852. Scientist, university professor in Vienna, 1806 director of the "Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet" (Court Natural History Collection), whose collection he increased considerably; founder of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna as a museum organised on strictly scientific principles.