Albert Bernhard Frank

Albert Bernhard Frank ( born January 17, 1839 in Dresden, † September 27, 1900 in Berlin) was a German biologist. The word mycorrhiza was first used by Frank. According to him, the bacterium Frankia alni is named. His botanical and mycological author abbreviation is " ABFrank ".

Life

After 1861, Frank science and botany mainly studied with Georg Heinrich and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach Mettenius at the University of Leipzig. After receiving his doctorate in 1865, he was curator of the local Universitätsherbariums, his habilitation was 1867. Transversalgeotropismus From him the terms and Transversalheliotropismus come. Since 1881 he worked as a research professor of plant physiology at the Agricultural College in Berlin for the binding of atmospheric nitrogen through symbioses between prokaryotes and higher plants. Since he and his college in the aftermath made ​​more discoveries in plant pathology, he called his job "Institute of Plant Physiology and Plant Protection " around.

Studies on diseases of sweet cherry, beet, grains and vegetable and potato did not make him only in the scientific world a name. He was known to make the results of his research for agriculture and forestry rapidly available. His consulting activities in the field of plant protection was the beginning of the institutionalization of this task in the developing plant protection offices.

Works

  • Contributions to plant physiology. Leipzig 1868. Online
  • Plant tables for easy, fast and reliable determination of the higher plants northern and central Germany, together with two special tables for the determination of the German woody plants after the arbor, and in wintry condition, and a survey of the natural system. Schmidt & Günther, Leipzig, 4, verb. and presumably edition 1881. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Textbook of Botany. W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1892-93. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.29599
  • The diseases of plants. a handbook for farmers and foresters, gardeners, garden lovers and botanists. 2nd edition, E. Trewendt, Breslau 1895-96 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.46031 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.27057
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