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Otto Brunfels (born c. 1488, Mainz [Germany]—died Nov. 23, 1534, Bern, Switz.) was a botanist, considered by Carolus Linnaeus to be one of the founders of modern botany. Brunfels entered the Carthusian monastery in Strassburg in 1514 as a priest of the austere religious order.
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Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels) (believed to be born in 1488 – 23 November 1534) was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".
Learn about Otto Brunfels, one of the three German 'Fathers of Botany', who illustrated plants in his Herbarum vivae eicones (1532). Discover his descriptions and illustrations of cowslip, violets, pasque flower and other plants with medicinal and symbolic value.
Feb 24, 2011 · Otto Brunfels was born in Germany in 1488 and is known as a theologian, physician and botanist. Brunfels entered a Carthusian monastery in Mainz and later moved to another Carthusian monastery in Strassburg (Strasbourg) in 1514.
Otto Brunfels (1488-1534) was a monk, preacher, and physician who wrote the first herbal with naturalistic illustrations. He organized the plants by their medicinal uses and used their common German names.
Otto Brunfels. 1489?-1534. German Physician and Botanist. O tto Brunfels is considered one of the three "fathers" of German botany, in large part because of his three-volume Herbarum vivae eicones (Living Images of Plants), published in the 1530s.
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Brunfels, Otto (Brunfelsius Otto) 1464-1534. Brunfels was a Carthusian Monk who later turned Lutheran. He finally became a school teacher and still later a physician. His herbal, Herbarum Vivae Eicones, was published in Latin about 1530.
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