German biologist (1747–1835) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist.
Franz von Paula Schrank.Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte.
He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years later. In 1786 he was named chair of mathematics and physics at the lyceum in Amberg, and in 1784 became a professor of botany and zoology at the University of Ingolstadt (later removed to Landshut).[1] Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.
Schrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops, which he used in his work on the fauna of Bavaria in 1803.
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.) online
BDHL Digitised Enumeratio insectorum Austriae indigenorum
BDHL Digitised Sammlung naturhistorischer und physikalischer Aufsäze, hrsg. von Franz von Paula Schrank.
BDHL Digitised Naturhistorische Briefe über Oestreich, Salzburg, Passau und Berchtesgaden, von Franz von Paula Schrank und Karl Ehrenbert Ritter von Moll.
