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Valerius Cordus

1515 - 1544

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Valerius Cordus (18 February 1515 – 25 September 1544) was a German physician, botanist and pharmacologist who authored the first pharmacopoeia North of the Alps and one of the most celebrated herbals in history. He is also widely credited with developing a method for synthesizing ether (which he called by the Latin name oleum dulci vitrioli, or "sweet oil of vitriol"). Cordus wrote prolifically, and identified and described several new plant species and varieties. The plant genus Cordia is named for him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valerius Cordus is the 338th most popular biologist (up from 347th in 2019), the 2,224th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,679th in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Valerius Cordus ranks 338 out of 1,097. Before him are Patrick Geddes, Jérôme Lejeune, Edward Blyth, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Brian Kobilka. After him are Phillip Allen Sharp, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, George Robert Waterhouse, Josif Pančić, Nehemiah Grew, and Wilhelm Peters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1515, Valerius Cordus ranks 19. Before him are Piali Pasha, Felix of Cantalice, Johann Weyer, Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, and Duarte, Duke of Guimarães. After him are Francisco de Toledo, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, Hōjō Ujiyasu, Philip I, Duke of Pomerania, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and Sibylle of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1544, Valerius Cordus ranks 7. Before him are Jungjong of Joseon, Manco Inca Yupanqui, Hwang Jini, Clément Marot, Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, and Johannes Magnus. After him are Pedro Damiano, Ruy López de Villalobos, Louis V, Elector Palatine, Bonaventure des Périers, Antonio de Guevara, and Teofilo Folengo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Valerius Cordus ranks 2,225 out of 7,253. Before him are George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Paul von Hase (1885), Fritz Wunderlich (1930), Wilhelm Marr (1819), and Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744). After him are Ernest of Bavaria (1554), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373), Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (1445), and Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1862).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Valerius Cordus ranks 61. Before him are Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Hermann Burmeister (1807), and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809). After him are Wilhelm Peters (1815), Friedrich Boie (1789), Moritz Wagner (1813), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), and Fritz Müller (1822).

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