Georg Franck von Franckenau

Georg Franck von Franckenau (* 3 May 1643 in Naumburg (Saale); † 17 June 1704 in Kopenhagen) was a German physician and botanist.

Life
Georg Franck studied medicine and anatomy in Strasbourg, he received his M.D. in 1666. In 1671 he became professor at University of Heidelberg and also private doctor of the Margrave of the Electoral Palatinate. Due to a French invasion in the War of the Palatinian Succession he left Heidelberg for Frankfurt and then University of Wittenberg.

In 1692 he was knighted by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and on 30 November 1693 he became a fellow of the Royal Society. His he worked in Denmark at the court of Christian V in Copenhagen where he died on 17 June 1704.

Work

 * Flora Francica Aucta, oder vollständiges Kräuter-Lexicon,… (1680, Flora der Pfalz)