Education
Gredler, who was a Dominican friar, first studied classics (1835 - 1841) then philosophy and theology (1842 -1848). He then studied natural sciences at the Gymnasium in Halle (1848 - 1849).
Botanist entomologist naturalist
Gredler, who was a Dominican friar, first studied classics (1835 - 1841) then philosophy and theology (1842 -1848). He then studied natural sciences at the Gymnasium in Halle (1848 - 1849).
Without other qualifications, he succeeded in gaining a natural history diploma. He then became director of the Franciscan Gymnasium in from 1849 to 1901. Gredler wrote 338 publications on various subjects: geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, insects), art, anthropology, history, et cetera
He made numerous excursions in the Tyrol and had a rich natural history collection with the aid of the other semianarists and his pupils.
This is today conserved in the museum of the Gymnasium of Bolzano (or Museo Tirolese di Scienze Naturali del Ginnasio dei Padri Francescani).