> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 894](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121025) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2949-1) LSID 2949-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756) QID Q60756 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fuchs, Leonhard (1501-1566), German physician and botanist, professor of medicine at Tübingen, one of the German "fathers of botany." **Abbreviated name**: *Fuchs* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.Fuchs*\] #### Herbarium and types None. – The woodcuts of the later octavo editions of the Kreüterbuch were used for a number of later herbals e.g.: Herbarium ac stirpium historia (Paris 1549), Historia de la yerbas, y plantes, sacada de Dioskoride Anazarbeo... (Antwerpen 1557), Dodoens De frugum historia (Antwerpen 1552). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 680; Barnhart 2:15; BM 2: 629-630; Bossert p. 135; GR p. 78; HU 1: 480; Jackson p. 25, 32; NI 658-673; Plesch p. 231-233; PR 3137-3143. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 309-317. 1857. - Roth, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 3: 161-191. 1898. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 126. 1903, 3(3): 124., *pl. 8.* 1905 (portr.) - Greene, Landmarks 192-219. 1909. - Neumann, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1917: 635-647. 1919. - Stübler, Leonhart Fuchs, München 1928, viii, 135 p. (Münchener Beitr. Gesch. Lit. Naturw. Med. 13/14: 165-298. 1928). - Marzell, Leonhard Fuchs und sein New Kreüterbuch (1543) in facsimile edition, Leipzig 1938. - Blunt, The art of botanical illustration 48-55, 298. 1950. - Marzell, Kosmos, Stuttgart, 62: 177-179. 1966. - Mägdefrau, Gesch. Bot. 25-29, 310. 1973. - Smit, History of the life sciences 932-933, 1048. 1974. - Dobat und Mägdefrau, 300 Jahre Botanik in Tübingen, Attempto 55/56: 10-11. 1975. #### Eponymy (genera) *Fuchsia* Linnaeus (1753); *Schufia* Spach (1835, anagram); (journals): *Fuchsia* ou recueil d'observations de botanique, d'agriculture, d'horticulture et de zoologie, 1 Vol., 1849 (*n.v.*); *Fuchsia Annual* (British Fuchsia Society), Reading, England, Vol. 1-x, 1938-x. #### Note For an extensive biography and bibliography see Stübler (1929). The bibliographical references are to numbered entries on p. 279-293. ### Publications ##### n.1909. De historia stirpium commentarii insignes **Title** *De historia stirpium commentarii insignes*, maximis impensis et vigiliis elaborati, adjectis earundem vivis plusquam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis. Basel (Isingrin) 1542. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. stirp.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1542. – \[28\], 896, \[4\] p., 509 full page woodcuts of plants, three portraits in woodcut, portr. Fuchs. Stübler reproduces three drawings intended for the continuation of the *Historia stirpium*. See Ganzinger for the manuscript (at Vienna) of a new edition with 1525 figures. – Modern nomenclature: Sprague and Nelmes 1931. Some of Fuchs' illustrations are the historical types of Linnaean taxa (vide C. Bauhin). Original coloured copies are rare (e.g. the former Plesch copy). *Ref*.: BM 2:629; HE p. 23; HU 48; Jackson p. 25; Langman p. 295; LS 9380; NI 658; Plesch p. 231-232; PR 3138; SA 2: 560; Stübler 37. - Meyer, Gesch. Bot. 4: 309-317. 1857. - Greene, Landmarks of botanical history 192-199. 1909. - Choate, Torreya 17: 186-201. 1917. - Sprague and Nelmes, J. Linn. Soc. London Bot. 48: 545-642. 1931. - Ganzinger, Südhoff's Arch. Gesch. Med. 43: 213-224. 1959. - Steam, *in* Buckman, Bibliography and natural history 3-4. 1967. - Guédès, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 7(1): 81-85. 1974 (on a variant titlepage). - Stettler, Calif, hort. J. 35(2): 70-71. 1974 (portr.) - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 224-225. 1975 (Plesch copy, sold at *£* 6, 800). ##### n.1910. New Kreüterbuch **Title** *New Kreüterbuch* in welchen nit allein die gantz Histori das ist Namen Gestalt Statt und Zeit der Wachsung Naturkraft und Würckung des meysten theyls der Kreüter so in Teutschen und andern Landen wachsen... Basel 1543. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *New Kreüterb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1543 – For commentaries and references see above. For all subsequent editions see Stübler p. 128-133. *Facsimile* editions: Leipzig 1938, München 1964 (reduced size). *Ref*.: BM 2: 629; Jackson p. 25; NI 659; PR 3139; Stübler 38. - Marzell, Leonhart Fuchs und sein Kreüterbuch (1543) in facsimile edition, Leipzig 1938.