Friedrich Carl Knauer was an Austria

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n zoologist.

Friedrich Knauer studied physics

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, chemistry

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 and zoology

Zoology

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 at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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 from 1868 to 1872. In 1887, he became a director Vivarium

Vivarium

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 in Vienna Prater

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. In 1893, he became the director of Vienna Zoo

Tiergarten Schönbrunn

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. Knauer wrote zoological books for schools and instruction in science as well as popular scientific works. After his death, Knauer was buried in Zentralfriedhof Cemetery

Zentralfriedhof

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. In 1930, a street in Favoriten

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 was named Friedrich Knauer Gasse.

Works

• Die bauende Thierwelt. Beschreibung der wichtigeren Thierbaue nach fremden und eigenen Beobachtungen. Pichler, Wien o.J.
• Die fremdländischen Amphibien und Reptilien. Frankreich, Spanien, Italien, Griechenland, Rußland, Afrika. Für den Naturfreund beschrieben. Wien o.J.
• Die Reptilien und Amphibien Nieder-Oesterreichs. Eine faunistische Skizze. Wien 1875
• Amphibien- und Reptilienzucht. Köhler, Wien 1875
• Beobachtungen an Reptilien und Amphibien in der Gefangenschaft. Hölder, Wien 1875
• Fang der Amphibien und Reptilien und deren Conservierung für Schulzwecke. Hölder, Wien 1875
• Unsere Kenntnisse von der Entstehung und dem Baue des Chlorophyll`s und dessen Rolle im Pflanzenleben. Hölder, Wien 1875
• Die alte Grenzscheide zwischen Thier- und Pflanzenwelt und deren Umsturz durch die moderne Naturwissenschaft. Hölder, Wien 1876
• Deutschlands und Österreichs Reptilien. Pichler, Wien 1877
• Europas Kriechtiere und Lurche. Pichler, Wien 1877
• Naturgeschichte der Lurche (Amphibiologie). Pichler, Wien 1878
• Naturgeschichte des Thierreiches. Lehr- und Lesebuch für die unteren Klassen der Gymnasien. Pichler, Wien 1878
• Ein Ausflug nach Schönbrunn. Selbstverlag, Wien 1879
• Deutschlands und Österreichs Amphibien. Für den Naturfreund beschrieben und nach ihrem Leben beschrieben. Pichler, Wien 1881
• Handwörterbuch der Zoologie. Enke, Stuttgart 1887
• Zur Gründung eines großen zoologischen Gartens in Wien. 1. Wiener Vereinsbuchdruckerei, Wien 1891
• Schönbrunn. Belehrender Führer. Lechner, Wien 1898
• Zwiegestalt der Geschlechter in der Thierwelt (Dimorphismus). Teubner, Leipzig 1907
• Vogelschutz und Federnindustrie. Eine Streitfrage. Braumüller, Wien 1914
• Menschenaffen. Ihr Frei- und Gefangenleben. Thomas, Leipzig, um 1915
• Naturschutztage. Anregungen zur Erziehung unserer Jugend zum Naturschutz für Eltern und Lehrer. Thomas, Leipzig 1916
• Waldgänge. Unseren Jungwanderern zur Anregung und Belehrung. Jugendverlag Eckarthaus, Wien 1924