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FRAAS, KARL NIKOLAS

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

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