Franz Gräffer (6 January 1785 – 8 October 1852) was an Austrian librarian, bookseller and writer.
Afterwards he opened an antiquarian bookshop and was a publisher, making unsuccessful plans to produce magazines.
[2][3][4] He was a freelance writer, from 1812 writing numerous works about the cultural history and customs of Vienna, some published anonymously or pseudonymously.
With Johann Jakob Czikann (1789–1855) he founded the Österreichische National-Encyklopädie (6 volumes, 1835–37), regarded as the first comprehensive reference work about Austria.
[2][3] His biographer in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich wrote: "Gräffer was, in his innermost character, after all no businessman, but a scholar by calling, burdened with all the weaknesses and advantages of those often eccentric people.