Johan Franck

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Johan Franck , Latinized Johan Franckenius (born January 25, 1590 in Stockholm , † October 16, 1661 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish doctor and botanist .

Live and act

Johan Franck was the son of Matthias Franck and Anna Rostorpia. After studying in Rostock , he became professor of botany and anatomy in Uppsala in 1624. He was there u. a. Teacher of Olof Rudbeck the Elder .

Franck was rector of Uppsala University three times (1630, 1636 and 1642/423) . In his works he described the medicinal effects of plants and listed their Latin and Swedish names.

Honor taxon

Carl von Linné named the genus Frankenia of the Frankeniaceae plant family in his honor .

Works

  • De signaturis herbarum idiomate Germanico . Rostock 1618
  • De innocentl occisorum corporum sanguine qui ad praesentiam siccari et homicadae ubertim ex vulnere profluit et exillat . Uppsala 1624
  • De siderum coelestium in sublunaria corpora influxu vi et efficacia . Uppsala 1624
  • Colloquium philosophicum cum dijs montanis: thet är: Ett funny och liuflighit samtaal emillan the förnembsta och noblest mountain-gudar och een Högförfaren philosopho Zamolxides benämbd: om then noble och dyrbare klenodien lapide Uppsala 1638 …
  • Speculum botanicum renovatum, in quo juxta alphabeti ordinem, praecipuarum herbarum, arborum… Nomenclaturae… proponuntur . Uppsala 1659

literature

  • Johan Franck . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 354 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Johann Emanuel Wikström: Conspectus litteraturæ botanicae in Suecia from antiquissimis temporibus usque ad finem anni 1831, notis bibliographicis et biographiis auctorum adjectis . Stockholm, 1831
  • Lynn Thorndike: History of Magic and Experimental Science . Volume 13, 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Johan Franck's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 187
  4. ^ Pier Antonio Micheli wrote in Nova plantarum genera , 1729, p. 23 f. the genus was originally named after the Italian doctor Giovanni Sebastiano Franchi Franca .
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johan Franckenius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1661
Place of death Uppsala