Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566)

Leonhart Fuchs

German physician and botanist (1501–1566)

Leonhart Fuchs, 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.…