Franz Anton von Raab

Raab and his wife Antonia, silhouettes by Francois Gornod

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]

References

  1. ^ BLKÖ:Raab, Franz Anton Ritter von  (in German) – via Wikisource.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Born, I. E. von (1790). Catalogue Methodique et Raisonne de la Collection des Fossiles de Mlle. Éléonore de Raab. Vienna: J. V. Degen. Vol. 1, Vol. 2
  4. ^ 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. London: T. Bensley. 1799.
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