Vinzenz Maria Gredler
Vinzenz Maria Gredler was an Austrian naturalist.
Gredler, who was a Dominican friar, first studied classics then philosophy and theology. He then studied natural sciences at the Gymnasium in Halle. Without other qualifications, he succeeded in gaining a natural history diploma. He then served as director of the Franciscan Gymnasium in Bozen from 1849 to 1901.
Gredler wrote 338 publications on various subjects: geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, art, anthropology, history, etc. He made numerous excursions in the Tyrol and had a rich natural history collection with the aid of the other seminarists and his pupils. This is today conserved in the museum of the Gymnasium of Bolzano.
The scientific journal "Gredleriana" is named in his honor.
