Hieronymus Bock, German botanist and physician (born 1498)

Hieronymus Bock

German botanist (1497/98–1554)

Hieronymus Bock 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…