Annie Francé-Harrar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian biologist and writer
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Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
About Annie Francé-Harrar
- Annie Francé-Harrar (born 2 December 1886 Munich, Germany; died 23 January 1971 Hallein, Austria) was an Austrian writer and scientist. Francé-Harrar created the scientific basis for the humus-compost-economy together with her second husband Raoul Heinrich Francé.
- During her life she wrote 47 books, some 5000 articles in the German press, and held over 500 lectures and courses, including radio broadcasts. At a young age she combined her artistic and literary talent with technical research.
- The first printed work appeared in 1911 and described in verses the lives of women over the centuries.
- In the same year she first married, but after only six years this marriage ended in divorce.
- In 1916 she met Raoul H.
- Francé, director of the Biological Institute in Munich, and became his assistant.
- 1920 the first utopian novel The fire souls described the problem of the destruction of soil fertility.
- After the divorce from her first husband, she married Francé in Dinkelsbühl 1923.
- In 1924 the couple settled down in Salzburg.
- There she wrote – based on impressions and research – a book about the famous doctor Paracelsus, who had died in this city 1541.
- The period to 1930 was the first group of overseas travels, the occasion for a series of monographs.
- With regard to the health of her husband, increasingly frequent stays in Ragusa (today's Dubrovnik) on the southern Adriatic coast followed.
- From there the couple fled in the turmoil of the Second World War to Budapest in 1943, where Raoul Heinrich Francé died in the same year – a leukemia had been recognized too late.
- After the end of the Second World War Annie Francé-Harrar began with the construction of a breeding station for the transformation of urban waste in Budapest in the summer of 1945 and developed the first Impfziegel (bioreactor) for composting. In 1947 she returned to Austria.
- At the Bavarian Agriculture Publishers her work appeared in 1950 with the title The Last Chance – for a future without need, which was well received and popular.
- Even Albert Einstein admired this work and said it would have a permanent place in world literature.
- As a result of the book The Last Chance she was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country for nine years to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.
- As a result of almost 40 years of work, in 1958 the book Humus – soil life and fertility was published.
- After several intermediate stops in Europe she returned in 1961 to their home.
- She was still actively working in the World Union for Protection of Life and other organizations.
- She spent her last years in the pension Schloss Kahlsberg, where she died in January 1971 after a short illness at 85 years of age.
- On January 26 she was buried at the side of her husband in Oberalm-Hallein.
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