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Otto Brunfels: Quick Facts

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Born c.1488 • Mainz • Germany
Died November 23, 1534 • Bern • Switzerland
Notable Works “Herbarum vivae eicones”
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
Leonhard Fuchs.
Leonhard Fuchs
German botanist and physician
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Crateuas
Greek artist and physician
John Gerard, detail of an engraving, 1636
John Gerard
English herbalist and author
botanical illustration
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
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William Turner
English botanist
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Rembert Dodoens
Flemish physician and botanist
Gibson, William Hamilton
William Hamilton Gibson
American illustrator and author
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Maria Sibylla Merian
German-born naturalist and artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
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Julius von Sachs
German botanist
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Nicholas Of Cusa
cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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Adolf von Menzel
German painter

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