Adam Lonicer
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Eucharius Rösslin
Eucharius Rösslin , sometimes known as Eucharius Rhodion, was a German physician who authored a book about childbirth called Der Rosengarten in 1513, which became a standard medical text for midwives.He was an apothecary at Freiburg before being elected physician to the city of Frankfurt on Main...
’s herbal.
Lonicer was born in Marburg
Marburg
Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...
, the son of a theologian and philologist., He studied at Marburg and the University of Mainz, was a student of Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria is named after him...
, and obtained his Magister degree at sixteen years of age. He became professor of Mathematics at the University of Marburg in 1553 and Doctor of Medicine in 1554, becoming the town physician in Frankfurt-am-Main. His true interest though was herbs and the study of botany. His first important work on herbs, the Kräuterbuch, was published in 1557, a large part dealing with distillation
Distillation
Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities of components in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction....
. Lonicer acknowledged his sources for the book, crediting Jean Ruelle
Jean Ruelle
Jean Ruelle , was a French herbalist and physician to Francois I. He became a priest after giving up medicine. He published a Latin translation of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica in 1529 and followed this up in 1536 with De Natura Stirpium.The plant genus Ruellia is named after him.-References:...
(1474-1537), Valerius Cordus
Valerius Cordus
Valerius Cordus was a German physician and botanist who authored one of the greatest pharmacopoeias and one of the most celebrated herbals in history...
, Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena.He received his MD at the University of Padua in 1523, and subsequently practiced the profession in Siena, Rome, Trento and Gorizia, becoming personal physician of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in Prague and Ambras...
, Hieronymus Braunschweig and Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gessner was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria is named after him...
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Lonicer married Magdalena Egenolff, the daughter of his Frankfurt publisher, Christian Egenolff. Christian Egenolff died in 1555, and Lonicer became a director of the firm, publishing no fewer than four editions of the Kräuterbuch between 1557 and 1577. He died at Frankfurt-am-Main.
The genus Lonicera in the family Caprifoliaceae
Caprifoliaceae
The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.They are mostly...
is named in his honour.
Publications
Christoph Hans G. DHBG Publikation1560 ´´Kreutherbuch und künstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume,Stauden,
Hecken,Kreuther,Getreyde,Gewürtze... ´´ Frankfurt : Christian Egenolff/Erben Ausgabe 1560 /
Christoph Hans G. " Leben und Werk " Herausgeber DHBG ( Geslau /Germany)
1557 Kräuterbuch und Künstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kräuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze . . ., Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
: Christian Egenolff
1560 `` Kreutherbuchausgabe Adam Lonicer ``
Publikation Zeitschrift für Phytotherapie 1-2011 32.Jahrgang
Christoph Hans G.