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Hieronymus Bock

1498 - 1554

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Hieronymus Bock (Latinised Hieronymus Tragus; c. 1498 – 21 February 1554) was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their relation or resemblance. The standard author abbreviation H.Bock is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hieronymus Bock is the 307th most popular biologist (down from 288th in 2019), the 2,061st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,274th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hieronymus Bock ranks 307 out of 1,097. Before him are Jacob Georg Agardh, Takenoshin Nakai, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Edward Turner Bennett, Jacob Christian Schäffer, and George Arnott Walker-Arnott. After him are Karl Alfred von Zittel, Motoo Kimura, John Gurdon, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Elmer Drew Merrill, and Karl Gegenbaur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1498, Hieronymus Bock ranks 11. Before him are Maarten van Heemskerck, Giulio Clovio, Andrés de Urdaneta, Sophie of Pomerania, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne. After him are Andreas Osiander, Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, Moretto da Brescia, Felix Manz, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Conrad Grebel. Among people deceased in 1554, Hieronymus Bock ranks 11. Before him are John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Sebastiano Serlio, João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Sibylle of Cleves, and Thomas Wyatt the Younger. After him are Pedro Cieza de León, Gaspara Stampa, Moretto da Brescia, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Marcantonio Trivisan, and Islam Shah Suri.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hieronymus Bock ranks 2,062 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1647), Paul Landers (1964), Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), Charles II, Elector Palatine (1651), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), and Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães (1858). After him are Judith of Schweinfurt (1003), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860), Walther Hewel (1904), Karl Lachmann (1793), and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Hieronymus Bock ranks 52. Before him are Lorenz Oken (1779), Otto Brunfels (1488), Jean Cabanis (1816), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), and Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718). After him are Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776).

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