Georg Franck von Franckenau

Georg Franck of Franckenau also: Georg Francus, Frank ( May 3, 1644 Naumburg ( Saale), † June 16, 1704 in Copenhagen) was a German physician and botanist.

Life

George's ancestors were of noble birth. His father Sebastian Franck of Franckenau but lived in middle-class and participated as a church elder in community life in Naumburg. His wife and mother of George was Babara Winecke, which also came from respected citizen ratios. In his native city and in Merseburg George had gone through the school education. At eighteen, he enrolled in the summer semester 1662 at the University of Jena, where he shone with his skill and acquired the poet's crown. Here he had initially completed philosophical language studies and later turned to medicine. After a few years he was at the University changed Strasbourg, where he in 1666, medical doctor's degree earned. 1671 Franck followed a call to the University of Heidelberg, where he served as professor and as personal physician to the Elector Karl Ludwig ( 1617-1680 ) and Charles ( 1651-1685 ) was active.

He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was repeatedly dean of the medical faculty, in 1678 Rector and Vice-Rector in 1686. Due to the Nine Years War, he left Heidelberg in 1688 and moved to Frankfurt on. Here he received in 1689 a reputation as a professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg. In Wittenberg, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was in the winter semester 1691 rector of the Alma Mater. After the Electors of Saxony in 1693 accompanied on his kingdom expedition to France, had refused several offers to other courts, he followed in 1694 an appointment as physician to the Danish King Christian V family. Having arrived in Denmark in 1695, he was appointed court appointed and Judicial Council and was also the personal physician to king Frederick V. nachgefolgten.

1692, he was knighted by Emperor Leopold I; on November 30, 1693 he was inducted as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society. Since 1672 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

In a 1682 published under the name of its originating from Frankfurt am Main doctoral John Richier treatise entitled " De ovis paschalibus " Franck was first mentioned in the propagating in the Protestant areas of Alsace and the Palatinate popular belief in the Easter Bunny.

Work

• Instituionummedicarum synopsis ac methodus discendi medicinam, quam primis praelectionibus delineavit; item Delineatio communis dosium medicamentorum. Heidelberg 1672
• Lexicon vegetabilium usualium, in quo plantarum quarum usus usque innotuit, noun cum synonymis Latinis, Graecis, germanicis, et interdum arabicis, temperamentum, vires ac usus generalis et specialis, atque ex praeparata optimistic quibusque auctoiibus in usum medicinae, pharmacopoeae ac chirurgiae studiosorum breviter sed perspicue proponuntur. Strasbourg 1672 ( was 1685, Leipzig 1698, Strasbourg in 1705 reissued as Flora Francica. Heidelberg and received from Christoph Hellwig 1714 a German translation, in Jena in 1753, Züllichau 1766 )
• Tractatus philologico - medicus de cornutis, in quo varia curiosa delibantur ex theologorum, jurisconsultorum, medicorum, philosophorum, politicorun atque philologorum Monumentis. Heidelberg 1678
• Bibliotheca parva zootomica. Heidelberg 1680
• Agonismata physico- medica de undecim medicamentotrum simplicium laudibus. Heidelberg 1681
• De palingenesia immersive resuscitatione artificiali plantarum hominum et animalium e suis cineribus, liber siugularis, jam revisus, emendatus, nec non Commentario et variorum suisque experimentis quanmplurimis illustratus a Joanne Christiano Nehringio. Hall 1717
• Satyrae medicae XX, quibus accedunt Dissertationes VI, Varii simulque rarioris ar ¬ gumenti, una cum oratione de studiorum noxa, editae from auctoris filio Georgia Frederico Franck de Frankenau. Leipzig 1722 ( This is the name of the son got a collection of dissertations of his father )
• De Ovis Paschalibus. From Easter Eyern ( = Satyrae medicae, Continuatio 18) (Heidelberg 1682 dissertation of John Richier )