Franz Schötz

Franz Josef Schötz (born November 8, 1920 in Munich ) is a German botanist and professor emeritus for botany at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Here he was the first of the still “classic” botanists who established the then revolutionary electron microscopy in his field in Bavaria . In 1958 he moved from his work at the Botanical Institute to the Botanical Garden, where he became senior curator in 1960, director of the state's natural science collections in 1964, state curator in 1970, director of collections in 1971 and head of collections in 1973. From 1985 to 1988 he was the director of the garden.

Publications

Botanical Garden Munich, outdoor guide ; 1966
The outdoor areas of the Botanical Garden in Munich with A. Kress; 1975, 1980
Botanical Garden Munich, greenhouse guide, with H.Ch. Friedrich; 1963
The greenhouses of the Munich Botanical Garden ; 1977, 1983
Botanical Garden Munich (illustrated book), with E. Kraus u. a .; 1964, 1966, 1973, 1981
Mountain plants in the alpine garden on the Schachen with A. Kress; 1973
The Alpine Garden on the Schachen with A. Kress, 1984
On the history of botany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Landshut 1800–1826, today's Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Regensburg Botanical Society , Regensburg 2008
On the history of botany in Ingolstadt 1472–1800. Botany as part of the medicine Bavarian Academy of Sciences - Mathematical and natural science class, Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7696-2563-9 .

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Schötz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Munich Botanical Garden . Published by the Munich Botanical Garden and the Society of Friends of the Munich Botanical Garden, Stuttgart, 2014, p. 37 (list of all directors of the Munich Botanical Garden from 1809 to 2014 ); he was appointed director on December 1, 1985, cf. Hans-Christian Friedrich: 75 years of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg . Reprint from the 1989 annual report of the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections, p. 17

personal data
SURNAME	Schötz, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schötz, Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

[1] Munich Botanical Garden . Published by the Munich Botanical Garden and the Society of Friends of the Munich Botanical Garden, Stuttgart, 2014, p. 37 (list of all directors of the Munich Botanical Garden from 1809 to 2014 ); he was appointed director on December 1, 1985, cf. Hans-Christian Friedrich: 75 years of the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg . Reprint from the 1989 annual report of the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Natural Science Collections, p. 17