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Rollett, Georg Anton
© Copyright Anton Rollet, painting by J.B. Lampi the Elder, 1824 Rollett, (Georg) Anton, b. Aug. 2, 1778, d. Baden (Lower Austria), March 19, 1842, collector, naturalist, physician, grandfather of Alexander Rollett, uncle of Hermann Rollett. His extensive collection was donated to the town of Baden in 1867 (R. Museum); it contains among other things: a herbarium (more than 14,000 plant species), archaeological, ethnographical, technological and art collections, mineralogical, botanical and zoological objects as well as Gall´s phrenological collection of skulls and busts. Works: Kleine Flora und Fauna von Baden, 1805; Schematismus der landesfürstl. Stadt Baden in NÖ., 1805. Literature: ÖBL.
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