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1 de nov. de 2019 · Otto Brunfels nació en Maguncia, Alemania, en 1488. Después de estudiar teología y filosofía, vivió en distintos monasterios cartujos en la Alemania del siglo XVI. Se levantaba a orar antes de que despuntara el día, permanecía en su celda leyendo las escrituras sagradas y caminaba, solitario, ejercitando la mayor aspiración de su orden ...
Otto Brunfels. Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels) (believed to be born in 1488 – 23 November 1534) was a German theologian and botanist. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Brunfels has received more than 74,994 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia.
Born: Mainz, Germany ca. 1489 Died: Bern, Switzerland 23? Nov 1534 Dateinfo: Dates Certain Lifespan: 45
From Brunfels to Clusius, the standards of descriptive botany improved steadily: clearer and more detailed descriptions, an increasing consistency of vocabulary used to describe plant anatomy, an awareness of the need to record locations.
There are also a number of 16th- and 17th-century 'herbals' in the collection. Among these are examples of the works of three men who have been described as the 'German fathers of botany', namely Hieronymous Bock (1498-1554), Otto Brunfels (1489-1534) and Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566).
Otto Brunfels, Herbarum vivae eicones (Johann Schott, Strassburg, 1530)Written by the earliest of the German botanists, this work is a milestone in the history of botany. It is the first book on the subject to rely wholly on personal observation and has 135 original detailed woodcuts of plants taken directly from nature. Although Brunfel’s ...
Otto Brunfels nació en Maguncia en 1489, y posiblemente su afición a la botánica la adquirió a través de los bellos herbarios impresos en esa ciudad a finales de siglo. En 1521 se convirtió al luteranismo, circunstancia que comparte con buena parte de los naturalistas centroeuropeos.
