FRANK, JOHANN PETER German phy sician, was born on March at Rodalben, Bavaria, and studied at Heidelberg and Strasbourg. He became court and gar rison physician in Rastadt (1769), professor in Gottingen (1784), in Pavia (1785), director of sanitation in Lombardy (1786), and in 1795 sanitary officer to the Vienna hospitals. In 1804, after a short time in St. Petersburg as ordinary physician and counsellor of State, he returned to practise in Vienna, where he died on April 24, 1821. Frank's fame rests on his System der medicinis Chen Policey (1779), which covers the hygiene of all the stages of a man's life. His treatise on therapeutics, De Curandis Morbis, appeared in 1792.
His autobiography was published in Vienna (1802). See also K. Doll, Dr. J. P. Frank (Karlsruhe, 1909).