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FRAAS, KARL NIKOLAS

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 772 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FRAAS, KARL NIKOLAS 010-1875), German botanist and agriculturist, was born at Rattelsdorf, near
Bamberg
 , on the 8th of September 181o. After receiving his preliminary education at, the gymnasium of
Bamberg
 , he in 183o entered the university of
Munich
 , where he took his
doctor
 's degree in 1834. Having devoted
great
  attention to the study of botany, he went to Athens in 1835 as inspector of the court
garden
 ; and in April 1836 he became professor of botany at the university. In 1842 he returned, to Germany and became teacher at the central agricultural school at Schleissheim. In 1847 he was appointed professor of
agriculture
  at
Munich
 , and in 1851. director of the central veterinary college. For many years he was secretary of the Agricultural Society of Bavaria, but resigned in 1861. He died at his estate of Neufreimann, near Munich, on the 9th of November 1875.
His
principal
  works are: ErotxsIca rigs Boravuci s (Athens, 1835);
Synopsis florae classicae (Munich, 1845) ; Klima and Pflanzenwelt in der Zeit (Landsh., 1847) ; Histor.-encyklopad. Grundriss der Landwirthschaftslehre (
Stuttgart
 , 1848); Geschichte der Landwirthschaft (Prague, 1851); Die Schule des Landbaues (Munich, 1852); Baierns Rinderrassen (Munich, 1853); Die kiinstliche Fischerzeugung (Munich, 1854) ; Die Natur der Landwirthschaft (Munich, s857); Bud; der Natur fur Landwirthe (Munich, 186o) ; Die Ackerbauhrisen and ihre Heilmittel (Munich, 1866) ; Das Wurzelleben der Guitar pflanzen (Berlin, 1872) ; and Geschichte der Landbau and Forstwissenschaft seit dem r6c" Jahrh. (Munich, 1865). He also founded and edited a weekly agricultural
paper
 , the Schranne.


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