He was editor of Heinrich Wilhelm Schott's celebrated monograph on aroids, Aroideae Maximilianae, and with Theodor Kotschy (1813–1866), was co-author of Plantae Tinneanae, a book describing flora collected on the Tinné expedition to Sudan.
Prominent natives and residents of the town included the Jesuit historian Markus Hansiz, the German military commander Julius Ringel, and the physician and botanist Johann Joseph Peyritsch.
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