Cajetan Freiherr von Felder
| Cajetan von Felder | |
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Lithograph by Adolf Dauthage, 1861
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| Mayor of Vienna | |
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In office 20 December 1868 – 28 June 1878 |
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| Preceded by | Andreas Zelinka |
| Succeeded by | Julius von Newald |
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| Born |
19 September 1814 Wieden (present-day Vienna), Austrian Empire |
| Died | 30 November 1894 (aged 80) Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Spouse(s) | Josefine Sowa |
| Children | Rudolf Felder |
| Profession | Lawyer, entomologist |
Baron Cajetan von Felder (German: Cajetan Freiherr von Felder; 19 September 1814 – 30 November 1894) was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and liberal politician. He served as mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878.
Felder was born in Wieden, today the fourth district of Vienna. An orphan from 1826, he attended the gymnasium of Seitenstetten Abbey, as well as schools in Brno and Vienna, and began to study law at the University of Vienna in 1834. He completed his legal internship in Brno and articled clerk in Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in 1841.
Since 1835 he had made intensive travels throughout Western and Southern Europe, mostly on foot, and studied foreign languages. From 1843 he also worked as an assistant at the Theresianum academy and as a court interpreter in Vienna, before passing the Austrian bar examination in 1848, only a few days before the outbreak of the March Revolution. In October 1848 Felder was elected to the newly established municipal council (Gemeinderat) of Vienna, however, he resigned a few months later due to political differences.
Over the next ten years he worked as a lawyer, running his own office in Vienna, and continued his study trips. He travelled to the Orient, to Africa, where in 1852 he met with young Alfred Brehm in Khartoum, through Eastern Europe, to North Cape, and through Russia. He gathered a large collection of beetle and butterflies. In 1860 he joined the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
In 1861, Felder again became a member of the Vienna Gemeinderat and also obtained a seat in the Landtag diet of Lower Austria. He was elected deputy mayor of Vienna in 1863 and head of the Vienna Danube regulation commission in the following year. Also in 1863, he took over the custody of 14-year-old Anton Dreher jr., the son of late Anton Dreher, owner of one of the largest breweries in Europe. Felder mastered this task until Dreher reached majority in 1870.
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