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FUCHS, LEONHARD (15o1-1566)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 272 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FUCHS, LEONHARD (15o1-1566) , German physician and botanist, was born at Wembdingen in Bavaria on the 17th of January 15o1. He attended school at Heilbronn and
Erfurt
 , and in 1521 graduated at the university of
Ingolstadt
 . About the same time he espoused the doctrines of the Reformation. Having in 1524 received his diploma as
doctor
  of
medicine
 , he practised for two years in
Munich
 . He became in 1526 professor of
medicine
  at
Ingolstadt
 , and in 1528 physician to the margrave of Anspach. In Anspach he was the means of saving the lives of many during the epidemic locally known as the "
English
  sweating-sickness." By the duke of Wurttemberg he was, in 1535, appointed to the professorship of medicine at the university of
Tubingen
 , a post held by him till his death on the loth of May 1566. Fuchs was an
advocate
 
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of the Galenic school of medicine, and published several Latin translations of
treatises
  by its founder and by Hippocrates. But his most important publication was De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Basel, 1542), a
work
  illustrated with more than five hundred excellent outline illustrations, including figures of the common foxglove and ofanother species of the genus Digitalis, which was so named by him.


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