Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld (July 22, 1780 in

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– September 15, 1831, also in Vienna) was an

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. From 1802 on he worked as the

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's assistant at the

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collection of the Natural-Animal Cabinet in Vienna. He later became an official in the administration. He published the ''Mineralogical Pocket Book'' (''Mineralogisches Taschenbuch, enthaltend eine Oryctographie von Unterösterreich zum Gebrauche reisender Mineralogen'') in 1807, but abandoned

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thereafter. In 1813, he published ''Österreichs Färbepflanzen'' (Austria's Dying Plants). He was the younger son of Johann Baptist Megerle von Mühlfeld, who was known as ''von Mühlfeld'' since 1803.

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) 18th-century Austrian scientists Naturalists from the Austrian Empire 1780 births 1831 deaths {{Biologist-stub