Vinzenz Maria Gredler

Who was 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 became 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 semianarists and his pupils. This is today conserved in the museum of the Gymnasium of Bolzano.