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Leonhart Fuchs

1501 - 1566

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Leonhart Fuchs (German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈfʊks]; 17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), 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. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonhart Fuchs has received more than 163,942 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Leonhart Fuchs is the 208th most popular physician (up from 216th in 2019), the 1,415th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,459th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 208 out of 502. Before him are Regnier de Graaf, Maurice Bucaille, Paul Gachet, Andrea Cesalpino, Johann Weyer, and Guy de Chauliac. After him are Nicolaes Tulp, Norman Bethune, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Li Shizhen, and Carl von Rokitansky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1501, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 10. Before him are Isabella of Austria, Garcilaso de la Vega, Queen Munjeong, Yi Hwang, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, and Sahib I Giray. After him are Bairam Khan, Ivan Susanin, Perino del Vaga, Hemu, Maurice Scève, and Francisco de Ulloa. Among people deceased in 1566, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 7. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent, Nostradamus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Diane de Poitiers, Nikola IV Zrinski, and Daniele da Volterra. After him are Louise Labé, Antonio de Cabezón, Margaret Paleologa, Sigismund von Herberstein, Johannes Agricola, and Lambert Lombard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 1,415 out of 6,142. Before him are Mary Wigman (1886), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Widukind of Corvey (925), and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849). After him are Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Vasily Radlov (1837), Hans Vaihinger (1852), and Reinhart Koselleck (1923).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Leonhart Fuchs ranks 30. Before him are Werner Haase (1900), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), August von Wassermann (1866), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), and Franciscus Sylvius (1614). After him are Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Horst Schumann (1906), Hans Berger (1873), Carl Ludwig (1816), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), and August Oetker (1862).

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