Heinrich Johann Nepomuk of noble from Crantz, also Cranz (* 25 November 1722 in Roodt in Luxembourg; "† 18 January 1797 in Zeiring with Jew castle in the Steiermark) was a Austrian physician and Botaniker.

Crantz attained a doctorate in Vienna in the year 1750 after the study with Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772). It specialized promptly on the area of the birth assistance. For this purpose it formed on journeys to Paris and London. It trained itself with Nicolas Puzos and Levret.

With its improved knowledge it introduced the training of the birth assistance into Austria by instruction at the hospital of pc. Marx. Crantz improved the midwife training and developed an improvement of the Levret' Geburtszange. After dying Melchior in the year 1756 he transferred its chair and taught physiology and Materia medica until 1774.

Apart from its medical studies busy it itself with botanischen questions as well as with problems of the therapeutic baths, whereby he wrote the first book 1777 for therapeutic baths in Austria.

Works

• Commentarus de rupto in partus doloribus A foetu utero, Vienna 1756
• Introduction into a true and created midwife art, 1756
• Materia medica et chirurgica juxta systema naturae digesta, 2 Bd., Vienna 1762, 1765 and 1779
• Stirpium Austriacarum fasciculus, 3 parts, Vienna 1762-1767
• Institutiones botanicae, 1765
• Institutiones rei herbariae, 1766
• Classis Umbelliferarum emendata"Â…, 1767
• De DUA bus draconis arboribus botanicarum"Â…, 1768
• Classis cruciformium emendata cum figuris aeneis in necessarium instit, Leipzig 1769
• Healthy well of the Austrian monarchy, Vienna 1777
• Medicinisch surgical pharmaceutics, Vienna 1785

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