Franz Tappeiner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Tappeiner

Austrian botanist

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1816

Place of Birth: Laas, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1902

Profession: botanist, anthropologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Franz Tappeiner, Edler von Tappein (7 January 1816, Laas – 20 August 1902, Meran) was an Austrian physician and anthropologist.
He was the father of pharmacologist Hermann von Tappeiner. He studied at the universities of Prague, Padua and Vienna, and afterwards opened a medical practice in his hometown of Laas.
Later on, he became a spa physician in Meran, about which, he advocated fresh-air therapy for tuberculosis patients and water treatments for sufferers of typhus.As an anthropologist, he is best known for his studies of the inhabitants of Tyrol.
During his career he amassed an impressive collection of skulls that he left to the Vienna Museum of Natural History and to the Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. The Tappeinerweg (Tappeiner Promenade), a popular 4 km trail in the city of Merano is named after him, as is the "Franz Tappeiner Hospital", also located in Merano.