Franz Anton von Raab

Franz Anton von Raab (1722-1783) was an Austrian agrarian reformer and a minister under Maria Theresa.[1] He championed economic reforms known as Raabization, in which church-owned land was sold to peasants in return for cash payments that freed them from their obligated robota labor.[2]

Raab and his wife Antonia, silhouettes by Francois Gornod

His daughter Eleonore von Raab built up a substantial collection of minerals which was widely known after being catalogued by Ignaz von Born.[3][4]

References
  1. BLKÖ:Raab, Franz Anton Ritter von  (in German) – via Wikisource.
  2. https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817944915_83.pdf
  3. Born, I. E. von (1790). Catalogue Methodique et Raisonne de la Collection des Fossiles de Mlle. Éléonore de Raab. Vienna: J. V. Degen. Vol. 1, Vol. 2
  4. A New System of Mineralogy, in the form of a Catalogue, after the manner of Baron Born's Systematic Catalogue of the collection of fossils of Mlle Éléonore de Raab. London: T. Bensley. 1799.
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