FRA 
Jrim liberal means of fubfiftence eal he applied himfelf ae 
uch good ufe of their mo oe 
giv 
hotany, chemiftry, and anatomy, before 
feo ob doctor. which, after Cue fulfilled mea a 
He continu ed his pro- 
1672 
ted him to ya on profi Torfhi 
eliclbers, anda Fe ards nominated him his 
‘own phyfician. But ‘ e reer 2 occafioned by ,the war 
Sampled ‘Franck to leave Heidelberg in 1688, and he 
retired to Francfort on the Main. hn George ITI., elector 
of Sax eek aa 
him profeffor an offic 
he has with fo much eclat, that the principal profeffor thip, 
offered to h 
ees of his friends, who. fought to retain him at Wittem- 
The two fucceedine electors likewife loaded this 
hacen with fo many hele that it was fuppcf: 
could never dream of quitting Heidelberg. le ody 
he was induced, by. the Teens of Chriftian V. k: Den- 
mark, to remove to Copenhagen, where was re ees 
ry Vv 
V. the fucceffor of Chr iftia Death, how ever, 
terminated his yess career on the 6th of June 1704, in 
the 6oth year of his. 
$a sneraed of. feveral learned focieties, and 
b 
uilt- 
. He wrote 
mn wat a oan | 
carum Synopfis,”’ Heidelberg, 1672. 2. Lexicon 
tabilium ufualium,’’? Argentorati, 1672 This was repub- 
lithed feveral times. In the edition of Leipfic 1698, the 
title of « Flora Franciea’”’ was given to it. 3. “ Bona nova 
Anatomica,” Heidelberg, 1680. 4. “ Parva Bibliotheca 
‘Zootomica,’’: ibid. - 1680. “De calumniis in Medic 
et Medicinam,”’ ibid. 1686. 6. * De Medicis eg 
Witteber 1691. 7. De palingenefia, five refu‘ci- 
g 
tatione, jean ere ne hominum, et animalium, é fuis 
eineribus, liber fingularis,”” Hale, 1717, edited by 
ehring. 8. « Satyre Medice XX.” Leipiic, 1722. Thefe 
pieces, which. had begun to appear in ul 3) were Speaee 
by his fon, George Frederick Franck, wh 
ot medicine at Wittemberg, and a ioe works on 
otany and phyfics -Eloy. Dit 
» TRAN ; E, AwuG eee ica a learned. German 
Lutheran ' divine, was bom at Lubeck in 1663; where he 
received the early paris of his education, and, in 1679, he 
to es aren orf rfu art, and from thence to 
His popularity was fo. 
is {aid to have had frequently 300 ftudents, 
t from ee caufes not dittingtly afcertained, he was 
man ace ement of the Tights.” 
FRA, 
imp utation was ever made to affe&t i ee 
Ww 
the court of Gotha, fatished is Innocence an his . 
merit, immediately offered him a choice of aida ee a 
aving. received, at the fame tin need an invitdtion- fro 
elector of randenburg, to beco rofeffor of the net 
© 
var) 
and Greek languages in the eniverity at Halle, he gave the 
preference to this; which, howev 
the profefforfhip of divinity. 
in weit the poor, and engaged, at his own expence, a 
ent in the univerfity tq aflift inthe fame plan. .Soor 
after, he extended his project, and formed an eftablifhment, 
to be fupported voluntary. contributions, 
orphans, and other 
and fup = sont they were qualified to be fent out into 
the wo: Aa. i 
houfe of pea a Oa, 
effential fervice to the eae of humanity and good morals 
in Germany, and has rendered the memory of Francke highly 
refpected. He lived to fee this inflitution flourifh in fuch a 
manner as abundantly to repay, all his | abours : provifion was 
made in it, and in others connected wi thi 
two ‘hound children. 
ear 
heir ie: 
» he foon 
re figned for 
ro) 
thole tht are re el fae Hy known; a mufeum of naturel 
curio erous libra e and activity 
foreign travel: this feemed, for a time, to ftop the sues 
reign 3 neverthelefs his inf ie were evidently increaf- 
ing, and though they did not, for the prefent, epee aa 
him entirely for public duty, yet they prevented him 
any confiderable exertions, and, in 1727, he died in the 6 sth 
year of his age, regretted by all ranks in Germany, for the 
noble fervices which he had rendered his country and th 
world. e was author of many theological werks, feveral 
of which Wie ay to explain arid illuftrate the books of 
ae) 
AG 
the Old ar ‘e igi Moreri. 
nGRANCKEN, poe FRANcIscUSs, commonly 
ea Old Franch, a native 
anders; who practifed 
hiftorical painting with very fone le fuccefs in a {mall 
ityle of proportion. His birth is fixed in 1 544, but when 
he died is uncertain, but ocaee to be in a 164 6, at thes age 
‘of 72. 
He pofleff 
oducit 
points of time, or parts of the hiftory of his ene 
it Excepting t thefe defects, his works ar 
pees oF rapaeatiie for the ingenuity of the execution. 
It-could n “wel be- = “. 
if the painter’s head “had been filled’ oa the vapours: of 
Belfhaazar’s wine. 
FRANCKEN, or FRANexsS ee commonly calle 
Your 
