Václav Frič (1839–1916) and his influence on collecting natural history
Václav Frič (1839–1916) and his influence on collecting natural history
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瓦茨拉夫·弗里奇(Václav Frič,1839-1916)及其对收集自然历史的影响
DOI:
10.1093/jhc/fhi001
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
0.2
通讯作者:
T. Spunarová
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作者:
H. Reiling;T. Spunarová
Václav Frič of Prague started his natural history business in 1862, greatly influenced by British examples. His and other natural history businesses can be understood as part of the nineteenthcentury museum movement. To advertise his business Frič contributed to exhibitions and published catalogues. He maintained a steady relationship with the National Museum in Prague, where his brother Antonín Frič was a curator. Václav sold marine specimens from the Naples zoological station, and also retailed glass invertebrate models made by the Blaschka family of glassworkers. One of his suppliers was the Czech Enrico Stanko Vráz, who travelled abroad. Frič's merchandise covered the three kingdoms of nature and provided demonstrations of natural diversity by means of representative and coherent selections. His business deserves to be valued as a leading example of its type from the late nineteenth century, alongside natural history museums and teaching collections, since his materials also demonstrated real scientific insights.