Franz Paula von Schrank

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Franz von Paula Schrank (1747 - 1835) was a German botanist and entomologist.

Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.

The standard botanical author abbreviation Schrank is applied to species he described.


[edit] Entomological works

  • 1781. Enumeratio insectorum Austriae indigenorum. 548 pp. Vienna.
  • 1802. Fauna boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. 412 pp. Ingolstadt.

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