Franz von Fleischer (27 November 1801, in
Lausick
Bad Lausick () is a town in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 12 km southwest of Grimma, and 29 km southeast of Leipzig.
History
Middle Ages to 18th century
In 1096 Bad Lausick was mentioned for the first ti ...
– 24 August 1878, in
Hohenheim) was a German
botanist
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.
As a young man, he worked as a
pharmacist
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in
Dresden and
Esslingen. In 1825 he undertook a botanical study trip to the Alps, followed by an extended scientific expedition in 1826/27 that took him to
Illyria
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,
Istria
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,
Greece,
Asia Minor,
Syria
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and
Egypt. The collections were partly distributed by the German scientific society
Unio Itineraria Unio Itineraria was a German scientific society which was based at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The organisation paid botanists to travel and collect plants, and sold the collections in large sets.
Rising costs associated ...
as
exsiccata-like series. Afterwards, he studied medicine and natural sciences at the
University of Tübingen, and following graduation in 1832, he worked as a teacher of natural sciences at the
Hofwyl agricultural school in the
canton of Bern
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.
[ADB:Fleischer, Franz von]
In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...
(ADB). Band 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, S. 583.
From 1834 to 1840 he taught classes in natural sciences at the cantonal school in
Aarau
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, and afterwards, served as a professor at the
Agricultural Academy in Hohenheim. He remained at Hohenheim up until his death in 1878.
[
Some plants with the specific epithet of ''fleischeri'' commemorate his name, an example being '' Crocus fleischeri''.
]
Selected works
* ''Über die Riedgräser Würtembergs, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der in der Flora von Tübingen einheimischen'', 1832 – On the sedges of Württemberg, etc.
* ''Beiträge zur Lehre von dem Keimen der Samen der Gewächse, insbesondere der Samen ökonomischer Pflanzen'', 1851 – Contributions to the theory of germination of seeds, especially seeds of economic plants.
* ''Ueber Missbildungen verschiedener Culturpflanzen und einiger anderer landwirthschaftlichen Gewächse'', 1862 – On malformations of various cultivated plants, etc.Most widely held works by Franz von Fleischer
WorldCat Identities
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fleischer, Franz von
1801 births
1878 deaths
People from Bad Lausick
People from the Electorate of Saxony
19th-century German botanists
University of Tübingen alumni