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Leonhart Fuchs

1501 - 1566

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Leonhart Fuchs (German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈfʊks]; 17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as Leonhartus Fuchsius, was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, a herbal, which was first published in 1542 in Latin. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts. The drawings are the book's most notable advance on its predecessors. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonhart Fuchs is the 256th most popular physician (down from 190th in 2019), the 1,753rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,316th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 256 out of 726. Before him are Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Constantine the African, Heo Jun, Carl Værnet, Charaka, and Hans Rosling. After him are Joseph Erlanger, Gavriil Ilizarov, Wim Eijk, May-Britt Moser, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Cicely Saunders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 10. Before him are Isabella of Austria, Yi Hwang, Queen Munjeong, Sahib I Giray, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Pietro Andrea Mattioli. After him are Bairam Khan, Ivan Susanin, Perino del Vaga, Maurice Scève, Hemu, and Francisco de Ulloa. Among people deceased in 1566, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 8. Before him are Nostradamus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, Daniele da Volterra, and Louise Labé. After him are Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Lambert Lombard, Taddeo Zuccari, and Jan Sanders van Hemessen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 1,753 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Morgenstern (1871), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Monika Ertl (1937), Ulay (1943), Johann Schein (1586), and Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579). After him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Ferdinand Ries (1784), Eugen Jochum (1902), and Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 37. Before him are Carl Ludwig (1816), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766). After him are Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Eduard Wirths (1909), and August Oetker (1862).

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