Annie Francé-Harrar
Annie Francé - Harrar ( born December 2, 1886 in Munich, Germany, † January 23, 1971 in Hallein, Austria ) was an Austrian writer, naturalist and biologist.
Francé - Harrar created with her second husband Raoul Heinrich Francé the scientific basis for the humus and compost management, they evolved independently after his death in 1943. Throughout her life, she wrote 47 books, 5,000 articles in the German press and held more than 500 talks and lectures, including those in radio broadcasts.
Life
Annie Francé - Harrar was born as a daughter of the Polish painter Aleksander Sochaczewski and his German wife on December 2, 1886 in Munich. From a young age she combined her artistic and literary talent with technical research. She studied in Munich biology and medicine. The first printed work was published in 1911 and describes in verse the woman throughout the centuries life. In the same year she joined the first marriage, which was, however, dissolved after only six years.
In 1916 she learned in a microscopy course Raoul Heinrich Francé know, head of the Biological Institute in Munich, and became his assistant. In 1920, the first utopian novel " The fire souls " which already raised the problem of destruction of soil fertility and was positively received by critics.
" I want to hold every bet that this will be the German book of 1921! "
After divorcing her first husband she graduated in 1923 with Francé marriage Dinkelsbühl. In 1924, the couple settled in Salzburg. There, she wrote a book about the famous physician Paracelsus, who died in 1541 in this city because of impressions and research. In the period to 1930, the first group of overseas trips, which gave rise to a series of monographs fell.
With regard to the health of her husband followed more frequent visits to Ragusa (today Dubrovnik ) on the Südadriaküste. From there, the couple fled in 1943 during the turmoil of World War II to Budapest, where Raoul Heinrich Francé died of leukemia recognized too late that same year.
After the end of World War II Annie Francé - Harrar began in the summer of 1945 with the construction of a humus station for the conversion of municipal waste in Budapest and developed the first Impfziegel for composting.
In 1947 she returned to Austria. In the Bavarian Agricultural Publishing was published in 1950 her work The last chance - for a future without poverty, which even took place at Albert Einstein high popularity:
"I think that this book deserves a permanent place in world literature and will get it too ..."
Because of her book " The Last Chance ", the researcher was appointed in 1952 to Mexico and supported the country for nine years on behalf of the local government by building up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation. As a result of their experiences eventually appeared in 1958 in the work " humus - soil life and fertility ". In this work, she took her 40 -year-old research papers on soil erosion and humus decomposition together. Your suggestion to counteract the loss of humus soil by a sensible waste recycling has been incorporated by the General nutrition plan of the United Nations.
After several intermediate stops in Europe in 1961, she returned back to their homes. She worked still active with the World Federation for the Protection of Life and other organizations. Her last years she spent at the Pension Castle Kahlenberg, where she died after a short illness at age 85 in January 1971. She was buried on 26 January at the side of her husband in Oberalm Hallein.
Since 1959, they had tried in vain to find a publisher to publish an illustrated "Handbook of soil life ." But until after her death showed none of the relevant trade publishers interested in the results of their research work. This book could be published only in September 2011.
In addition to her scientific work Annie Francé - Harrar also published literary works. She wrote novels - including some that are zuzuordenen the field of fantasy - stories, poems and plays.
Works
- The chain, München [ et al ] 1912
- Land of Shadows, München [ et al ] 1913
- The hell of the lost, Reutlingen 1916
- The fire souls, Berlin [ et al ] 1920
- Race, Leipzig 1920
- The gold animal, Leipzig 1922
- The hand behind the world, Leipzig 1923
- Small life of the forest, Leipzig 1923
- Shadow Dance, Stuttgart 1923
- The marriage of tomorrow, Leipzig 1924
- The tragedy of Paracelsus, Heilbronn 1924
- The aberration of development, Heilbronn 1926
- Trip to Punien, Berlin- Schöneberg 1926
- Animal and love, Berlin 1926. ( Cover design by Hans Windisch ).
- The love world of animals, Heilbronn 1927
- Journey into the prehistoric world, Berlin 1928
- South Seas, Berlin 1928
- Tropical America, Berlin 1928
- Sharks by May Lou, Berlin 1929
- The Island of the Gods, Berlin- Schöneberg 1930
- Florida, Berlin-Schöneberg, 1932
- The Culture of Old Europe, Berlin- Schöneberg 1932
- The Mysterious Australia, Berlin [ et al ] 1935
- Schweighausen, Berlin- Schöneberg 1935
- The Wonder Tree, Salzburg [ et al ] 1937
- Longing to the south, Leipzig [ua ] 1938 ( along with Raoul Heinrich Francé )
- The farm on the moor, Berlin, 1939
- And one day, Hamburg 1940
- The glass rain, Hamburg 1948
- Man G.m.b.H., Vienna 1949
- The last chance - for a future without poverty, Munich, 1950 ( reprint 2007)
- Changes of life, Vienna 1950
- Humus, München [ et al ] 1957
- So it was nineteen hundred microns, München [ et al ] 1962
- I, the animal, so live, Graz [ et al ] 1966
- I, the plant, so live, Graz 1967 aln
- Do not ask where the love comes, München [ua ] 1967
Editorship
- Raoul Heinrich Francé: life lesson for everyone, Berlin 1962