Karl Nikolas Fraas

Karl Nikolaus Fraas, German botanist and agriculturist, was born at Rattelsdorf, near Bamberg. After receiving his preliminary education at the gymnasium of Bamberg, he entered the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1830, where he took his doctor's degree in 1834. Having devoted great attention to the study of botany, he went to Athens in 1835 as inspector of the court garden; and in April 1836 he became professor of botany at the National University of Athens. In 1842-1843 he returned to Germany because of The Greek Revolution of September 3, 1843 all the foreign professors were expelled from the National University of Athens. He became teacher at the central agricultural school at Schleißheim Germany. In 1847, he was appointed professor of agriculture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and in 1851 director of the central veterinary college. For many years he was secretary of the Agricultural Society of Bavaria, before resigning in 1861. He died on his estate of Neufreimann, near Munich.