Franz von Paula Schrank - Jesuit und Botaniker

Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest,

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and

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. He was ordained as a priest in

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in 1784, gaining his doctorate in

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two years later. In 1786 he was named chair of mathematics and physics at the

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, and in 1784 became a professor of botany and zoology at the

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(later removed to

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at Catholic Encyclopedia Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in

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from 1809 to 1832. Schrank was the first author to use the

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'', which he used in his work on the fauna of

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in 1803.

Works

* ''Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte'' (Augsburg, 1776) * ''Vorlesungen über die Art die Naturgeschichte zu studieren'' (Ratisbohn, 1780) * ''Enumeratio insectorum Austriæ indigenorum'' (Wien, 1781) * ''Anleitung die Naturgeschichte zu studieren'' (München, 1783) * ''Naturhistorische Briefe über Österreich, Salzburg, Passau und Berchtesgaden'' with Karl Maria Erenbert Freiherr von Moll, Salzburg, 1784–1785) * ''Anfangsgründe der Botanik'' (München, 1785) * ''Baiersche Reise …'' (1786) * ''Verzeichnis der bisher hinlänglich bekannten Eingeweidewürmer, nebst einer Abhandlungen über ihre Anverwandschaften'' (München, 1787) * ''Bayerische Flora'' (München, 1789) * ''Primitiæ floræ salisburgensis, cum dissertatione prævia de discrimine plantarum ab animalibus'' (Frankfurt, 1792) * ''Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft vom Naturforschern und Ökonomen in Oberteutschland'' (München, 1792) * ''Anfangsgründe der Bergwerkskunde'' (Ingolstadt, 1793) * ''Reise nach den südlichen Gebirgen von Bayern, in Hinsicht auf botanische und ökonomische Gegenstände'' (München, 1793) * ''Fauna Boica'' Vol 3 (Nürnberg, 1803) * ''Flora monacensis'' (München, 1811–1820) * ''Plantæ rariores horti academici Monacensis descriptæ et iconibus illustratæ'' (1819) * ''Sammlung von Zierpflanzen'' (1819) * Entomologische Beobachtungen '' Naturforscher'' Stück 24, 60–90. (1789) *''Enumeratio insectorum Austriae indigenorum Francisci de Paula Schrank''. Augustae Vindelicorum : Klett et Franck, 1781. 548 pp. (1781) (checklist) *''Sammlung naturhistorischer und physikalischer Aufsäze,hrsg. von Franz von Paula Schrank''. Nürnberg, Raspe, 1796.xvi, 456 p. 7 plates (part fold.
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Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia

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Digitised Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte
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Digitised Enumeratio insectorum Austriae indigenorum *
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Digitised Sammlung naturhistorischer und physikalischer Aufsäze, hrsg. von Franz von Paula Schrank.
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Digitised Naturhistorische Briefe über Oestreich, Salzburg, Passau und Berchtesgaden, von Franz von Paula Schrank und Karl Ehrenbert Ritter von Moll. 1747 births 1835 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations Bryologists 18th-century German botanists German entomologists German mycologists German phycologists Pteridologists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty People from Passau (district) Catholic clergy scientists University of Ingolstadt faculty 19th-century German botanists {{Mycologist-stub

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