פליקס פיליפ קניץ

Felix Philipp Kanitz (1829-1904), ethnographer and art historian, born in Pest (now Budapest), Hungary (then part of the Austrian Empire). He studied history, archeology and ethnography at various universities in Austria, Germany and France. He traveled throughout Serbia, Bulgaria and other Balkan countries in order to investigate relics of the Roman and Byzantine empires there. Later he became interested in the history and cultures of the peoples who had lived in the Balkans after the disintegration of these empires.

Kanitz published his findings in "Die Roemischen Funde in Serbien" (1861); "Serbiens Byzantinische Monumente" (1862); "Reise in Suedserbien und Nordbulgarien" (1878); "Serbien, historisch-ethnographische Reisestudien aus den Jahren 1859-1868" (1868); "Donau-Bulgarian und der Balkan" (1875-79); "Roemische Studien aus Serbien" (1892); "Katechismus der Ornamentik" (1902); "Das Koenigreich Serbien" (1904).

Kanitz, who converted to Christianity at some time in his life, died in Vienna in 1904.