Georg Eberhard Rumphius

Georg Eberhard Rumphius

male, deceased (1702)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1628-1702), the "blind seer of Ambon", was a German-Dutch botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company. He is best...
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

male, deceased (1708)
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.
John Ray

John Ray

male, deceased (1705)
John Ray (November 29, 1627 - January 17, 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until...
Leonhart Fuchs

Leonhart Fuchs

male, deceased (1566)
Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 - 10 May 1566) was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, with Hieronymus Bock, called...
Pierre Magnol

Pierre Magnol

male, deceased (1715)
Pierre Magnol was a French botanist. He was born in the city of Montpellier, where he lived and worked for the biggest part of his life. He...
Hieronymus Bock

Hieronymus Bock

male, deceased (1554)
Hieronymus Bock or Jérôme Bock, also seen as "Boch", (1498 - February 21, 1554) also known under his latinised name Hieronymus Tragus, was a Ge...
Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper

male, deceased (1654)
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 - 1654 in London) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, "The...
Otto Brunfels

Otto Brunfels

male, deceased (1534)
Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany". A...
Rembert Dodoens

Rembert Dodoens

male, deceased (1585)
Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen June 29, 1517 - Leyden March 10, 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name...
William Turner

William Turner

male, deceased (1568)
William Turner was a British ornithologist and botanist. He is sometimes called "the father of English botany" and the first ornithologist in the...