Karl Nikolas Fraas

German botanist and university professor (1810-1875).

Karl Nikolaus Fraas (8 September 1810 – 9 November 1875), 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