Franz von Paula Schrank

Name and Identifiers
Other/given name(s) : 
Franz von Paula
Family name: 
Schrank
Professional information
Publications: 

Hopkins, G. H. E. and Clay, T. 1954.

Personal information
Birth Date: 
1747-08-21
Date of Death: 
1835-12-23
Biography: 

Biography:
Born 21. August 1747 in Vornbach (Bayern) Died 23. December 1835 in Munich

Professor of Theology and Botany, Ingolstad, GERMANY
Director, Botantical Gardens, Munich, GERMANY

1762 Entered the Jesuit order in Vienna
1764 Noviciate, studies at Raab, Tyrnau and Vienna, transfers to the school of the nordischen Kollegiums near Linz, where he studied for four years and helped with the care of the first botanical garden of Linz
1774 consecrated as a priest
1776 earned the Dr. Theology
1776 Professor of mathematics and physics at the Lyceum in Amberg
1779 Professor for Rhetoric at the High School in castle, lived at the Inn
1784 Professor of the agriculture and economic Botany at the national university Ingolstadt
1799 - 1826 Professor for Botany in land hat
Executive committee of the Botanical Garden of Munich
Publisher of the first survey of all insects of Austria Hungary
1809 - 1835 Member of the Royal-Bavarian Academy of Sciences of Munich

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