> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 595](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190066) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8173-1) LSID 8173-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66514) QID Q66514 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rauwolff, Leonhart \[Leonhard Rauwolf\] (1535-1596), German botanist, physician and traveller; M.D. Valence 1562; practiced medicine at Augsburg, Aich and Kempten 1563-1570; city physician Augsburg 1570-1573; travelled in the Near East 1573-1576; again at Augsburg 1576-1588; city physician at Linz 1588-1596; died in Hungary when on a campaign against the Turks. **Abbreviated name**: *Rauwolff* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rauwolff*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection L|L]], four volumes, acquired 1690 with the Isaac Vossius library. Available on IDC microfiche 8303. – The herbarium was taken from Augsburg to Sweden in the thirty years war and given to Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) who gave it to Isaac Vossius. The latter's heirs sold it to the city of Leiden. Vols. 1-3 contain 972 plants from France, Switzerland and Italy (coll. 1560-1563), vol. 4 contains 338 plants from the trip to the Near East. #### Note See Frick (1962) for the correct spelling of R's name: Leonhart Rauwolff taken from a letter written by R. to the Augsburg Collegium medicum on 12 Oct 1563. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 27: 462-465; Backer p. 484; Barnhart 3: 131; BM 4: 1651; DSB 11: 311-312 (Dannenfeldt; b. 21 Jun 1535, d. 15 Sep 1596); DTS 1: 236, xxiii; Herder p. 57, 211; HU 146; Jackson p. 233; JW 4: 402-403; Kew 4: 413; Lasègue p. 347, 403, 503, 517; Moebius p. 34; NI 1587, 3: 56; Plesch p. 372; PR 3608, 7430, ed. 1: 3920, 8373; Rehder 1: 477, 478; Saccardo r. 135; SO 635f; Sotheby 621; TL-1/455, 1038; TL-2/2190, 4309; Tucker 1: 583. #### Biofile - Babinger, F., Arch. Gesch. Naturw. Technik 4: 148-161. 1912. - Blakelock, R.A. & E.R. Guest, Fl. Iraq. 1: 109, 115. 1966. - Blatter, E., Rec. Bot. Surv. India 8(5): 458. 1933. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 442. 1880. - Cavillier, F., Boissiera 5: 74. 1941. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 13-15, 25. 1969. - Dannenfeldt, K.H., Leonhard Rauwolf, sixteenth century physician, botanist, Cambr. Mass. 1968, xiii, 321 p. (rev. R.G.C. Desmond, Kew Bull. 25(2): 374. 1971). - De Toni, G.B., Atti Soc. nat. mat. Modena ser. 4. 7: \[7 p.\] 1910 (on the third herbarium volume at L). - Frick, K, Südhoffs Arch. gesch. Med. 46(1): 82-83. 1962 (cites a letter by Rauwolff in which he signs himself Leonhart Rauwolff). - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné ser. I. 2: 107. 1908, 4: 104. 1910. - Ganzinger, K, Veröff. Int. Ges. Gesch. Pharm. ser. 2. 22: 23-33, 8 figs. 1963 (on Rauwolf and Fuchs). - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skifv. Linné ser. 2. 1: 102, 103. 1916, 2: 146, 147. 1943. - J., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 547. 1824. - Jackson, B.D., J. Bot. 39: 43-45. 1901 (rev. L. Legré, 1900). - Jessen, K.F.W., Gesch. Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 189. 1884. - Legré, L., J. Bot., Morot 13(5): 160-162. 1899 (on herb. at L); Bull. Soc. bot. France 46: lii-lxi. 1899; La botanique en Provence au xvie siècle, Léonhard Rauwolf, Jacques Raynaudet, Marseille 1900 (TL-2/4309) (reviewed by H. Solms, Bot. Zeit 59: 27. 1901). - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 36. 1973. - Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 31: 18. 1906. - Martins, C., Le jardin des plantes de Montpellier 7, 13, 31. 1854. - Murr, J., Neue Übers. Farn-Bl.-Pfl. Vorarlberg xx. 1923. - Poiret, J.L.M., Encycl. méth. Bot. 8: 754. 1808. - Rieppel, F.W., Deut. med. Wochensschr. 80: 653-655. 1955 (contr. to his biogr.; sec. refs.). - Saint-Lager, J.B., Hist. herb. 69-85. 1885. - Saccardo, P.A., Malpighia 17: 269. 1902. - Schinnerl, M., Ber. bayer. bot. Ges. 13: 207. 1912 (herb.). - Stafleu, F.A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 162, 165. 1971. - Steenis-Kruseman, M. J. van, Blumea 25: 33. 1979 (see also p. 114). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 33. 1935. - Wiesner, J., Südhoffs Arch. Gesch. Med. 43: 355-360. 1959 (L. Rauwolffals Altertumsforscher). #### Composite works J.F. Gronovius, *Fl. orient.* 1755, TL-2/2190, was based on Rauwolff's plants at Leiden. #### Note For a detailed description of Rauwolff's travelogue, *Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raiss inn die Morgenländer* see e.g. HU 146 and Dannenfeldt (1963). The fourth part (1583) has forty-two wood cuts of plants. #### Eponymy *Rauvolfia* Linnaeus (1753); *Rauwolfa* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Rauwolfia* Gleditsch (1764, *orth. var.*).