FRANZ, an engraver, and the author of a laborious work entitled Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, Chiffres, et Lettres Initiales des Graveurs, was born at Dusseldorf in 1780. On being appointed assistant-keeper of the royal collection of prints at Munich, he devoted himself to this valuable work, which appeared at Munich in 1817 in one 4to volume. He died of cholera in 1836.