Franz Unger
1800–70
Austrian botanist. Practised medicine in Stockerau and Kitzbühel, 1828–35. Professor of botany and zoology and director of the botanic garden, Johanneum, Graz, 1835–49. Professor of plant anatomy and physiology, University of Vienna, 1850–69. Considered one of the founders of palaeobotany; wrote in favour of species transmutation as early as 1852 and suggested hybridisation as a source of new species.
Sources
ADB
DBE
DSB.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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