100th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1971 - 2 Shilling

The brand image shows a portrait of the most important amateur botanist of the 19th century, August Neilreich. He was born on December 12, 1803 in Vienna, studied law at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1827 for a doctor. A year later, he began his service at the Vienna Civil Court, changed after the revolution of 1848 to the Lower Court Induction Commission and was from 1853 until his early retirement in 1856 a member of the Lower Austrian Provincial Commission for the establishment of new courts. Already during his active service, namely 1846, Neilreich's first and most significant description of the "Flora of Vienna" was published. Two years later, the "Flora of Lower Austria" was published, which earned him both national and international admiration and appreciation. Neilreich would have written many important works if his illness-he had suffered from tuberculosis for many years-had not prevented him. So his research was limited to long walks, to which the Natural History Museum owes a valuable collection of many thousands of plants. August Neilreich, after which an alley is named in Vienna's 10th district, died on June 1, 1871.