Franz Tappeiner
Franz Tappeiner, Edler von Tappein 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.
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The Tappeinerweg, a popular 4 km trail in the city of Merano is named after him, as is the "Franz Tappeiner Hospital", also located in Merano.- Medica specimen generale nosotologiae.
- Studien zur Anthropologie Tirols und der Sette Comuni, 1883 - Studies on Tyrolean anthropology and on the Sette Comuni.
- Eine prähistorische Fundstelle am Küchelberge bei Meran, 1892 - A prehistoric site of discovery in the Küchelberge near Meran.
- Zur Majafrage: den verherten Anthropologen Osterreichs und Deutschland, 1894.
- Beiträge zur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte von Tirol, 1894. - Contribution to the anthropology, ethnology and prehistory of Tyrol.
- Der europäische Mensch und die Tiroler, 1896 - The European man and the Tyrolean.
- Der europäische Mensch und die Eiszeit, 1898 - The European man and the Ice Age.
- Meine anthropologische Weltanschauung, 1901 - My anthropological worldview.
