Franz Anton von Raab explained
Franz Anton von Raab (1722-1783) was an Austrian agrarian reformer and a minister under Maria Theresa.[1] He championed economic reforms known as Raabization, in which church-owned land was sold to peasants in return for cash payments that freed them from their obligated robota labor.[2]
His daughter Eleonore von Raab built up a substantial collection of minerals which was widely known after being catalogued by Ignaz von Born.[3] [4]
Notes and References
- BLKÖ:Raab, Franz Anton Ritter von. de .
- https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817944915_83.pdf
- Book: Born . I. E. von . Catalogue Methodique et Raisonne de la Collection des Fossiles de Mlle. Éléonore de Raab . 1790 . J. V. Degen . Vienna. Vol. 1, Vol. 2
- Book: A New System of Mineralogy, in the form of a Catalogue, after the manner of Baron Born's Systematic Catalogue of the collection of fossils of Mlle Éléonore de Raab. 1799. London. T. Bensley.