Albert Bernhard Frank
1839–1900
German botanist, plant physiologist, and mycologist. Doctorate in natural sciences, Leipzig, 1865; habilitated in botany, 1866; privat-dozent, 1866–78; professor extraordinarius, 1878–81. Professor of plant physiology, Agricultural College, Berlin, 1881. Director of the Biological Division for Agriculture and Forestry of the Imperial Department of Health, 1899. Wrote on plant pathology; known for coining the word mycorrhiza and describing the symbiotic relationship between fungus and host in many woody plant species.
Sources
NDB
Trappe 2005
Bibliography
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
Trappe, James M. 2005. A. B. Frank and mycorrhizae: the challenge to evolutionary and ecologic theory. Mycorrhiza 15: 277–81.
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