Felix Philipp Kanitz (. 2 August 1829 – 8 January 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, painter and author of travel notes, of Jewish heritage. Biography Kanitz was born in Pest to a rich Jewish family and enrolled in art in the University of Vienna in 1846, at the age of seventeen.He travelled extensively after 1850, visiting Germany, France, Belgium and Italy. He settled in Vienna in 1856 and undertook a journey to Dalmatia in the Balkans in 1858, which marked the beginning of his thorough research of the South Slavs. Apart from Dalmatia, he also visited Herzegovina, Bosnia, Kingdom of Montenegro, Serbia and Bulgaria. He worked on the topic until 1889, the knowledge he gathered being evaluated as particularly important for the period. A good painter and drawer, Kanitz was also the author of a number of black and white drawings related to the life in the Balkans. Born a Jew, he later converted to Christianity. Between 1870 and 1874 he was the first custodian of the Anthropologisch-Urgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna. He died in the Austrian capital on 8 January 1904. Kanitz is regarded as one of the first profound ethnographers of the South Slavs. As such, he has earned great respect particularly in modern Serbia and Bulgaria. Kanitz was members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Honours Order of Franz Joseph Order of the Cross of Takovo Order of St. Sava Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry Member Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts A village in Vidin Province in northwestern Bulgaria and streets in Sofia and Varna are named after him. Kanitz Nunatak on Graham Land in Antarctica is named after Felix Kanitz. Works Monograpy 1861: Die römischen Funde in Serbien. k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien (Google) 1862: Serbiens byzantinische Monumente. k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien (ETH Zürich) 1864: Über alt- und neuserbische Kirchenbaukunst. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Wien: k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Google) 1868: Reise in Süd-Serbien und Nord-Bulgarien. Ausgeführt im Jahre 1864. Wien: kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Google) 1868: Serbien. Historisch-ethnographische Reisestudien aus den Jahren 1859–1868. Leipzig: Hermann Fries (Google) 1870: Katechismus der Ornamentik oder Leitfaden über die Geschichte, Entwickelung und die charakteristischen Formen der bedeutendsten Ornamentstyle aller Zeiten. Leipzig: J.J. Weber druhé upravené vydání Auflage 1877 udT Katechismus der Ornamentik oder Leitfaden über die Geschichte, Entwickelung und die charakteristischen Formen der bedeutendsten Verzierungsstyle aller Zeiten. (Google) čtvrté vydání 1891 1875–1879: Donau-Bulgarien