Hieronymus Bock or Jérôme Bock (1498 - February 21, 1554) also known under his latinised name Hieronymus Tragus was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran priest who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their relation or resemblance. His 1546 Kreuterbuch or "herbal" was illustrated by the artist David Kandel.
Botanists with author abbreviations | 1498 births | 1554 deaths | German physicians | German botanists | Pre-Linnaean botanists
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