Category: BotanicDocs

Ippolyt Guarinoni

Ippolyt Guarinoni

Hippolyt Guarinoni (also Ippolito Guarinoni and Hippolytus Guarinonius) (November 18, 1571 in Trento – May 31, 1654 in Hall in Tirol) was a physician and polymath who practiced in Hall. As a proponent of militant Catholicism, he was instrumental in the construction of St. Charles's Church in Volders and founded the anti-Semitic Anderl von Rinn cult. Hippolytus spent his childhood in Trento. He later moved with his father to Vienna and finally followed him to the court of Emperor Rudolf Read more [...]
Paolo Mantegazza

Paolo Mantegazza

Paolo Mantegazza (October 31, 1831 in Monza, Austrian Empire – August 28, 1910 in San Terenzo) was an Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist, as well as a prominent physician and consciousness researcher. Mantegazza published several works on the effects of psychotropic plants on human consciousness, numerous other scientific writings, and several novels that were bestsellers in their time but have since been largely forgotten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9xWe_USJg Mantegazza Read more [...]
Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe

Axel Martin Fredrik "Puck" Munthe [ˌakːsəl ˈmɵnːtə] (October 31, 1857 in Oskarshamn – February 11, 1949 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and author. Beruf und Leben https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wGu6dfpLE Axel Munthe was born in 1857, the son of a pharmacist. He studied medicine in Uppsala, Montpellier, and Paris. In 1880 he began practicing medicine in Paris and Rome. Over the years he worked in Naples, London and Stockholm. During his student years in Paris Read more [...]
Fritz Baars

Fritz Baars

Fritz Baars is a cycling doctor. On his website, he reports extensively on the Cycling Association of German Doctors and Pharmacists. As of January 1, 2013, I am now enjoying my professional retirement. It was initially a huge adjustment after a busy, interesting professional life. But now I finally have enough time for my hobbies! Active cycling played and continues to play an important role in that. Maintaining my website and compiling facts and information also requires a lot of time. Read more [...]
Gerhard Hermann

Gerhard Hermann

Gerhard Hermann, a laboratory physician and owner of a laboratory company, is turning his garden dreams into reality at his home! Forty years ago, the land surrounding the Zellesmühle farm in Weigenheim/Reusch near Uffenheim consisted of fields. Then Gerhard Hermann began planting the first trees. Over the years, the field became a true park. With its blend of Franconian landscape and English garden architecture, it is now one of the largest and most diverse private gardens in southern Germany. https://labor-hermann.de/unser-labor/historie https://www.management-krankenhaus.de/topstories/labor-diagnostik/30-jahre-institut-virionserion-dr-gerhard-hermann-im-interview Read more [...]
Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi. Aldrovandi was born in Bologna to Teseo Aldrovandi and his wife, a noble but poor Read more [...]
Johann Georg Adam Forster

Johann Georg Adam Forster

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster[nb 1] (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ], 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the Read more [...]
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He also was Botaniker. His official botanic short code is „Schwabe“. He studied pharmacy, chemistry, botanics and physics in Berlin. Coming back to Dessau in 1811 he ran the pharmacy of his grandfather. After selling the pharmacy in 1829 he dedicated himself to science and lived in the Schwabehaus. Schwabe was born at Dessau. Read more [...]
Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology."[1][2] His botanic abbreviation is "Haller", also used as "Hall." AS author his monumental work is Die Alpen. In "Die Alpen" are notes pointing out some plants of his Read more [...]