Not to be confused with Hieronymus Bosch or Hieronymus Cock.
Hieronymus Bock
Born
1497/98
Died
21 February 1554
Hornbach, Zweibrücken-Bitsch, Holy Roman Empire (in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Spouse
Eva Victor
Church
Lutheran
Hieronymus Bock (Latinised Hieronymus Tragus; c. 1498 – 21 February 1554) 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 as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
HieronymusBock (Latinised Hieronymus Tragus; c. 1498 – 21 February 1554) was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition...
Athens Hieronymus, son of Charles Martel Hieronymus (bishop of Wrocław), early medieval Bishop of Wrocław, Poland from 1046 to 1062 HieronymusBock, German...
theologian Otto Brunfels (1489–1534) and physician HieronymusBock (1498–1554) (also called Hieronymus Tragus). Fuchs and Brunfels broke away from the tradition...
Hieronymus Brunschwig or Hieronymus Brunschwygk (c. 1450 – c. 1512) was a German surgeon ("Wundarzt"), alchemist and botanist. He was notable for his...
(or “The Book of the Herbs”), by HieronymusBock, used woodcuts of a quality far ahead of the time. Commissioned by Bock, Kandel contributed some 550 woodcuts...
in 1542. Along with Otto Brunfels (1489–1534) and HieronymusBock (1498–1554), also called Hieronymus Tragus, he is today considered one of the three fathers...
the Dispensatorium des Cordus by Valerius Cordus (1542), Bocks Kräuterbuch by HieronymusBock (1577), and Tabernaemontanus' Neuw Kreuterbuch by Jacobus...
the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and HieronymusBock. Other important contributors to the field were Valerius Cordus, Konrad...
Translations of the early Roman-Greek compilations were made into German by HieronymusBock whose herbal, published in 1546, was called Kreuter Buch. The book...
discussed. Otto Brunfels (c. 1489–1534), Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) and HieronymusBock (1498–1554) were known as the "German fathers of botany" although this...
probably derive from the first known illustration of the species in HieronymusBock's 1546 Herbal, where the plant is shown being browsed by a goat. The...
Vivae Icones 1530 Libellus De Re Herbaria Novus 1538 Kreütterbuch of HieronymusBock 1539 De plantis libri XVI of Caesalpino 1583 Stirpium Historiae 1583...
with his two older German colleagues, Otto Brunfels (1488–1534) and HieronymusBock (1498–1554), has been described as a father of botany (or a German...
Otto Brunfels, HieronymusBock, and Leonhart Fuchs helped to revive interest in natural history based on first-hand observation; Bock in particular included...
Blakely Andrew Bloxam Carl Ludwig Blume Tyge W. Böcher Jane Haskett BockHieronymusBock Herman Boerhaave Wenceslas Bojer Henry Nicholas Bolander Harry Bolus...
1543 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (b. 1507) 1554 – HieronymusBock, German botanist and physician (b. 1498) 1572 – Cho Shik, Korean poet...
medieval botanist HieronymusBock recommended it to treat depression and strengthen the heart. Though both Leonhart Fuchs and Bock wrote that it could...
Tragus can mean: HieronymusBock's Latinized name Tragus (ear), a small pointed eminence of the outer ear Tragus (plant), a genus of grass Tragus (river)...
Botany Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC) Otto Brunfels (1488–1534) HieronymusBock (1498–1554) Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) The three German fathers of...
source of renewed empiricism in the study of plants. Otto Brunfels, HieronymusBock and Leonhart Fuchs wrote extensively on wild plants, the beginning...
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