Leonhard Rauwolf

Leonhard Rauwolf (Augsburg, June 21, 1535 – September 15, 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. Some sources list his date of birth as c1540.

References

• Karl H. Dannenfeldt, Leonard Rauwolf, sixteenth-century physician, botanist, and traveller. Cambridge (Mass.) 1968.
• Ray, John. FRS.Collection of Curious Travels & Voyages in two tomes the first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the eastern countries ..., the second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix and Patraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea. Published in 1693.
• Ludovic Legré, La botanique en Provence au XVIe siècle: Léonard Rauwolff, Jacques Renaudet. Marseille 1900, p. 9-11.
• Franz Babinger, "Leonhard Rauwolf, ein Augsburger Botaniker und Ostenreisender des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts," Archiv für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 4 (1913), 148-61.