!!!Unger, Franz

b. Leutschach (Styria), Nov. 30, 1800, 
d. Graz (Styria), Feb. 13, 1870, botanist, co-founder of paleobotany 
in Austria, originally physician. In 1830 university professor in 
Graz, from 1850 to 68 in Vienna. Proved the similarity between plant 
protoplasm and the sarcode of primitive animals, discovered the sexual 
nature of moss spermatozoid, drew the first blossom diagrams, taught 
the changeability of species and their genetic relationship. A 
tree-like plant genus (Ungeria) and different plant species are named 
after him. Founder of the science of plant diseases.

!Works
Die Exantheme, 1833; Aphorismen zur Anatomie u. Physiologie der 
Pflanzen, 1838; Synopsis plantarum fossilium, 1845; Genera et species 
plantarum fossilium, 1850; Iconographia plantarum fossilium, 1852; Die 
Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen, 1855; Geologie der europ. 
Waldbaeume, 2 vols, 1869; Botan. Streifzuege auf dem Gebiet der 
Kulturgeschichte, 9 vols, 1857-1868.

!Literature
A. Reyer, Leben und Wirken des Naturhistorikers F. U., 
1871.



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