Leonhart Fuchs

Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566) was a German physician and a botanist.

Publications

• "Errata" (1530), first publication
• "De historia stirpium commentarii " (1542), "New Kreüterbuch" in a German translation (1543), "New Herbal" in English, "Den nieuwen Herbarius, dat is dat boeck van den cruyden" (1543) in Dutch.

Fuchs tried to identify the plants described by the classical authors. The book contains the description of about 400 wild and more than 100 domesticated plant species and their medical uses ("Krafft und Würckung") in alphabetical order. The text is mainly based on Dioscorides.

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The book contains 512 pictures of plants, largely growing locally. The illustrators were Heinrich Füllmauer and Albert Meyer, the woodcutter Veit Rudolph Speckle, portraits of whom are contained in the volume. It appeared at the famous officin of Michael Isengrin in Basel, Switzerland.

Related Topics:
Woodcutter - Michael Isengrin - Basel - Switzerland

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• All in all, Leonhart Fuchs wrote more than 50 books and polemics.