Franz Faltis

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Franz Faltis (born June 22, 1885 in Frankenmarkt , Upper Austria ; † February 10, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian professor of pharmaceutical chemistry . Its botanical abbreviation is Faltis .

Faltis studied chemistry at the University of Vienna (Dr. phil. 1907) and became an assistant at the First Chemical University Laboratory. He completed his habilitation in Vienna in 1914, became an associate professor in Graz in 1919 and in Vienna in 1923 as well as head of the newly founded Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry there. In 1941 he was given a full professorship and in 1945 he became a correspondent of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . His main research interests were alkaloids and natural dyes. After a stroke in 1954 - other sources speak of a "lecture phobia" - he was retired and in the following year received the Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Faltis at the IPNI
  2. ↑ International Plant Index Names: Faltis, Franz (1885-1963)
  3. ^ Franz Faltis in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ^ Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle, Glimpflich denazisiert. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years, V&R unipress, Vienna 2014, p. 288


personal data
SURNAME Faltis, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenmarkt
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1963
Place of death Vienna