Éléonore de Raab

Eleonore von Raab, also known as Éléonore de Raab, (17551811) names her father as Bartholomeus Raab). She married the Spanish ambassador della Huerta, She died in Valencia, Spain.

Collection Von Raab built up a collection of about 2,500 specimens, with the assistance of Ignaz von Born. It included 41 specimens bought in 1791 and 1792 from the English collector Philip Rashleigh. Born produced his Catalogue Methodique et Raisonne de la Collection des Fossiles de Mlle. Éléonore de Raab in 1790, in two volumes in an edition of 70 copies. A copy of Born's catalogue was among 213 books from James Smithson's collection which were bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution.

After Born's death in 1791, Von Raab's collection was sold to Count Moritz Christian Friess of Vienna. The Hubers published a paper on "The mineral collection of Eleonore von Raab" in The Mineralogical Record in 2015.