Hieronymus Bock

Hieronymus Bock
Lutheran

Hieronymus Bock (

Life

The details of his life are unclear. In 1519 he inscribed at the university of Heidelberg. He married Eva Victor in 1523, and was schoolteacher in Zweibrücken for nine years. He became the prince's physician and caretaker of the kitchen garden of the count palatine and in 1533 received a life-time position as a Lutheran minister in nearby Hornbach where he stayed up to his death in 1554.

His surname was translated into

as was traditional, he developed his own system to classify 700 plants. Bock apparently traveled widely through the German region observing the plants for himself, since he includes ecological and distributional observations.

His 1546 Kreutterbuch ("herbal") was illustrated by the artist David Kandel.

In the wine world, Bock is noted for having the first documented use of the modern word

The grass genus Tragus (by Haller in 1768) and the spurge genera of Tragia (Plum. ex L. in 1753) and Tragiella (by Pax & K.Hoffm. in 1919) are all named after him.^[5]

Works

• New Kreuterbuch von Underscheidt, Würckung und Namen der Kreuter, so in teutschen Landen wachsen. Straßburg, 1546 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Footnotes

1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  H.Bock.
2. ISBN 978-0-226-62086-2
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3. ISBN 0-15-100714-4
4. ^ "Groll, E. K. Biografien der Entomologen der Welt : Datenbank".^{[permanent dead link]}
5. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8
   . Retrieved January 27, 2022.

References

• Christoph, Hans Gerhard " Hieronymus Bock Leben und Werk " Nihil parvum – nihil contemnendum Hrsg. Hornbach Historie
• Christoph, Hans Gerhard " Von alten Kräutern und neuen Gärten " published Die Pfalz page 12-13
• Christoph, Hans Gerhard " Zum Nutzen der Kranken " exhibition Augsburg, May 2012
• Adolf Engler (1875), "Bock, Hieronymus", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 2, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 766
• Hermann Ziegenspeck (1955), "Bock (Tragus), Hieronymus", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 343
• Isely, Duane (2002). One Hundred and One Botanists.
  OCLC 947193619
  . Retrieved 2018-11-27.
• Hoffmann, D., Laitko, H.and Müller-Wille, S. (Hrsg.); Jahn, Ilse 2003: Lexikon der bedeutenden Naturwissenschaftler. In drei Bänden. - Heidelberg, Berlin – Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 1 (A-E) : 1–497, zahlr. Fig.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hieronymus Bock.

• Hieronymus Bock info from the Hauck Botanical online exhibit Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Digital copy of Bock's Kreutterbuch on dLib.si
• "Bock, Jerome" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
• Digital images from Bock's Kreutterbuch at the Smithsonian
• Kräuterbuch 1551. Digitalisat