Franz de Paula from cabinet

Franz de Paula from cabinet

Franz de Paula von cabinet: memorial plaque in Vornbach

Franz de Paula closet , from 1808 knight of closet (sometimes also Schranck; born August 21, 1747 in Vornbach (now part of Neuhaus am Inn ), † December 22, 1835 in Munich ), was a German botanist , entomologist and Roman Catholic Clergyman . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " closet ".

Live and act

Cabinet, son of the monastery judge Johannes Cabinet and his wife Maria Walburga, attended what is now the Leopoldinum Gymnasium in Passau and joined the Jesuit order . After a time as a novice in Vienna - he could not take part in a mission to Brazil for health reasons - he was a teacher in Linz from 1769. After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, he returned to Vienna and was ordained a priest in December 1774 . 1776, he was in Vienna for a doctor of theology doctorate . In the same year he became professor of mathematics and physics at the Lyceum in Amberg (Bavaria) and in 1784 professor at the first Bavarian university in Ingolstadt . There he taught camera science with a focus on agriculture, mining, forestry and natural history . After the university was relocated to Landshut in 1800 , he continued his work as a university lecturer there.

Cabinet was later the first director of the Botanical Garden in Munich between 1809 and 1832 .

The street leading to the main entrance bears his name (Franz-Knie-Straße). In the garden there is a statue with a classicist bust of Schranks with the inscription "FRANZ VON SCHRANK REI BOTANICAE IN BAVARIA STATOR" ( Franz von Schrank, protector of the flora in Bavaria ). His bust was also placed in the Hall of Fame in Munich.

Awards

• 1778: extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1808: Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Bavarian Crown , associated with a transmission needle
• 1809: full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• 1816: Elected member of the Leopoldina
• 1824: Appointment to the Secret Spiritual Council
• 1829: Order of Ludwig
• Honorary member of the Regensburg Botanical Society
• Member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences (Erfurt), the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin , the Economic Society (Leipzig), the Polytechnic Society (Munich), the Society for the Advancement of All Natural Sciences in Marburg, the Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh), the Society for Physics and Natural History (Geneva) and the Société linnéenne (Paris).
• The plant genera Cabinetia Willd. (= Mimosa quadrivalvis ) and the genus Schranckiastrum Hassl. from the legume family (Fabaceae) has been named after him.

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Title page of Contributions to Natural History from 1776

Franz von Paula Wardrobe wrote a large number of scientific papers. Some of these are listed below.

• Contributions to natural history. Augsburg 1776. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.36918
• Lectures on the way to study natural history. Ratisbohn 1780.
• Enumeratio insectorum Austriæ indigenorum. Vienna 1781. Archives
• Guide to studying natural history. Munich 1783.
• Natural history letters about Austria, Salzburg, Passau and Berchtesgaden. (collected works, together with Karl Maria Erenbert Freiherr von Moll ), Salzburg 1784–1785. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.37123
• The beginnings of botany. Munich 1785. Archives
• Bavarian journey ... 1786.
• Directory of the visceral worms that are well known up to now; along with a treatise on their affinities. Munich 1787.
• Bavarian flora. Munich 1789. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.6609
• Primitiæ floræ salisburgensis, cum dissertatione prævia de discrimine plantarum from animalibus. Frankfurt 1792.
• Treatises of a private company by natural scientists and economists in Upper Germany. Munich 1792.
• The beginnings of mining science. Ingolstadt 1793.
• Travel to the southern mountains of Bavaria for botanical and economic objects. Munich 1793.
• Collection of natural history and physical essays . Nuremberg 1796. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.34274
• Fauna Boica. Thoughtful history of the domestic and domesticated animals in Bavaria. Nuremberg 1801. doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.44923 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.51801
• Flora monacensis. Munich 1811-1820.
• Plantæ rariores horti academici Monacensis descriptæ et iconibus illustratæ. 1819.
• Collection of ornamental plants. 1819.

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• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

literature

• Richard Hölzl: Creation under the microscope. The Jesuit and natural historian Frank de Paula closet (1747-1835) as a border crosser between the religious and the secular , in: Sven Petersen, Dominik Collet and Marian Füssel (eds.): Umwelten. Events, spaces and experiences of the early modern period , Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 201–223, ISBN 978-3-8470-0395-3 .
• Thomas Sperling:  cabinet, Franz de Paula von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 518 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Annette Zimmermann: Franz von Paula closet 1747–1835. Naturalist between Enlightenment and Romanticism . Fritsch, Munich 1981.
• Ernst Wunschmann:  Closet, Franz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 450-452.

Web links

Commons : Franz von Paula Wardrobe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Franz de Paula von schrank at the IPNI
• Franz Paula von Wardrobe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "nobilis Dominus Joannes cabinetius monasterii nostri iudex, uxor Domina Maria Walburga" (registers of the diocese of Passau, Vornbach, baptismal register 1747).
2. ^ "List of members" Leopoldina, Franz Paula von Wardrobe (accessed on April 3, 219).
3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .