Raoul Heinrich Francé (May 20, 1874, in Vienna, Austria – October 3, 1943, in Budapest, Hungary) was an Austro-Hungarian botanist, microbiologist as well as a natural and cultural philosopher and popularizer of science. His botanical author abbreviation is "Francé".
Raoul Heinrich Francé (May 20, 1874, in Vienna, Austria – October 3, 1943, in Budapest, Hungary) was an Austro-Hungarian botanist, microbiologist as well as a natural and cultural philosopher and popularizer of science. His botanical author abbreviation is "Francé".
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Biography Francé (birth name: Rudolf Heinrich Franze) was born on 20 May 1874 in Altlerchenfeld (Vienna) and studied as a self-taught very early in analytical chemistry and "Mikrotechnik" (microscopy). At 16 he was the youngest member of the Royal Hungarian scientific society, as its deputy magazine editor, he worked from 1893 to 1898. From 1897 Francé studied biology for eight semesters and became a student under the Hungarian protozoa scientist (Protozoenforscher) Geza Entz. During this time he undertook fourteen botanical expeditions. In 1898 he was appointed Deputy Head of the Institute of Plant Protection of Agricultural Academy in Hungarian-Altenburg. Here he published his first natural philosophical work. Thereupon Francé received in 1902 the invitation to come to Munich. In 1906 he founded the "Deutsche Mikrologische Gesellschaft" (German micrological Company) and its institution over which he presided as director. He was editor of this company and co-founder of the journal Mikrokosmos (1907). He was editor of other periodicals, such as Jahrbuch für Mikroskopiker and Mikrologische Bibliothek. In 1906 Francé initiated the eight-volume monumental work Das Leben der Pflanze ("The Life of Plants"), whose first four volumes (1906–1910) are from his own pen. The publishing company advertised this book as "Pflanzen-Brehm" ("Plant-Brehm",…
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Plant intelligence
Francé's Germs of Mind in Plants, a book on plant intelligence was translated by A. M Simons. The book revolted against mechanistic botany and argued that plants are like humans because they have a sense life and purpose. Francé was not satisfied with the position held by neuropsychology but he did not claim that plants can feel pain or have a soul. It was negatively reviewed as a philosophical, not a scientific work.
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Legacy
In 1898, botanist Ernst Lemmermann published Franceia, which is a genus of green algae belonging to the family Oocystaceae and named in Francé's honour.
Organic farming is based in part on the findings by Francé, which were published in his books "Das Edaphon" (wikt:edaphon, any animal or plant found in soil), 1913, and "Das Leben im Ackerboden", 1922, (Life in the soil) and a series of articles in the journal Mikrokosmos made available for a broad public. But this scientific source is usually concealed.
His wife Annie Francé-Harrar, a well-known biologist and author, worked with him for many years and continued parts of his scientific work after his death.
Today Francé is rediscovered as the founder of "Biotechnik" (Now called "Bionics"). His books Das Edaphon and Das Leben im Ackerboden were again published as reprints since 1959.
Many of his then and now progressive ideas only gained their assessment at the end of the 20th century.
In Munich and Dinkelsbühl a street bears his name.
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Works
Germs of Mind in Plants. 1905. [1]
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Das Sinnesleben der Pflanzen. 1905. [2]
Les sens de la plante. 2013. [3].
Die Natur in den Alpen. Leipzig 1910
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Die Welt der Pflanze. Berlin 1912
Das Edaphon. Untersuchungen zur Oekologie der bodenbewohnenden Mikroorganismen. München 1913. [4] [5]
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Spaziergänge im Hausgarten. Leipzig 1914
Die technischen Leistungen der Pflanzen. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie II). Leipzig 1919
Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Photographie. Gemeinsam mit Gambera. Stuttgart 1920
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Die Pflanze als Erfinder. Stuttgart 1920
München. Die Lebensgesetze einer Stadt. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie III. Teil). München 1920
Zoesis. Eine Einführung in die Gesetze der Welt. München 1920
Bios. Die Gesetze der Welt. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie IV-V. Teil). Stuttgart und Heidelberg 1921
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Das Leben der Pflanze. Stuttgart 1921
Das Leben im Ackerboden. Stuttgart 1922. [6]
Die Kultur von morgen. Ein Buch der Erkenntnis und der Gesundung. Dresden 1922
Ewiger Wald. Ein Buch für Wanderer. Leipzig 1922
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Das wirkliche Naturbild. Dresden 1923
Der unbekannte Mensch. Stuttgart und Heilbronn 1923
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Die Entdeckung der Heimat. Stuttgart 1923
Die Welt als Erleben. Grundriß einer objektiven Philosophie. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie VI). Dresden 1923
Plasmatik. Die Wissenschaft der Zukunft. Stuttgart und Heilbronn 1923
Das Buch des Lebens. Ein Weltbild der Gegenwart. Berlin 1924
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Die Seele der Pflanze. Berlin 1924
Grundriß einer vergleichenden Biologie. (Grundlagen einer objektiven Philosophie I). Leipzig 1924
Richtiges Leben. Ein Buch für jedermann. Leipzig 1924
Telos, die Gesetze des Schaffens. Dresden 1924
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Der Dauerwald. 1925
Der Ursprung des Menschen. Stuttgart und Heilbronn 1926
Bios - Die Gesetze der Welt. Taschenbuchausgabe Leipzig: Kröner 1926
Der Weg zu mir. Der Lebenserinnerungen erster Teil. Leipzig 1927
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Der Organismus. München 1928
Naturgesetze der Heimat. Wien und Leipzig 1928
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Welt, Erde und Menschheit. Berlin 1928
Die Waage des Lebens. Eine Bilanz der Kultur. Leipzig 1929
So musst du leben! Eine Anleitung zum richtigen Leben. Dresden 1929
Das Leben vor der Sintflut. Berlin 1930