Editing Leonhart Fuchs (section)

== Life ==
[[File:Fuchs Geburtshaus.jpg|thumb|upright|Fuchs Geburthaus, Wemding|alt=Photograph of the house where Fuchs was born]]
[[File:Collegium Maius - ehemaliges Hauptgebäude der Alten Universität.jpg|thumb|upright|Main building of Erfurt University in 16th C|alt=Photo of Erfurt University, dating to Fuchs's time]]
[[File:Alte Anatomie Ingolstadt.JPG|thumb|upright|Old medical school at Ingolstadt|alt=Photograph of the original medial school at the University of Ingolstadt]]
Fuchs was born in 1501 in [[Wemding]] (Marktplatz 5), near [[Donauwörth]] in [[Donau-Ries]] in the then [[Duchy of Bavaria]], as the youngest son of Johann (Hans) Fuchs and his wife Anna Denten.{{efn|Fuchs's mother's name is variously spelled as Denten, Denetorius or Denteni. Some sources state it as Zahn or Zähner, Denteni being a Latinised version of the German ''[[:de:wikt:Zahn|Zahn]]'' – tooth.{{sfn|Smeets|2022}}}}{{sfn|Rath|1961}}{{sfn|Roth|1897}} His father was the town [[Burgomaster]], and both parents came from families of [[Councillor|municipal councillors]] (''Ratsherr'').{{sfn|Roth|1897}} The exact date of his birth is unknown, but this was at the height of the [[German Renaissance]].{{sfn|Johnson|2008|pp=145–146}} His father died prematurely in 1506, leaving Leonhart to be brought up by his mother and grandfather, an earlier Burgomaster.{{sfn|Dobat|2022}}{{sfn|Melanchthon|2005}} 

His family considered him gifted, but felt that local schools could not provide him with the education he needed. In 1511, with help from relatives, he was sent to the ''[[Latin school|Lateinschule]]'' (grammar school){{efn|The Heilbronn Lateinschule later became the [[Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Heilbronn]]}} in [[Heilbronn]] (150&nbsp;km west of Wemding), where [[:de:Konrad Költer|Konrad Költer]], the ''[[Rector (academia)|Rektor]]'' (1492–1527), also recognised his abilities.{{sfn|Melanchthon|2005}}{{sfn|Heilbronn|2022}}{{sfn|Röcker|2000}} At that time, the school, had an excellent reputation, and Költer in particular for his teaching of [[Terence]] and [[Horace]].{{sfn|Roth|1897}} The following year, Fuchs transferred to the ''Marienschule'' in [[Erfurt]], Thuringia (320&nbsp;km to the north), which provided intensive teaching in the classical languages, as a prerequisite to entrance in the [[University of Erfurt]], which he then progressed to after six months. He was now eleven years old. At the time, the university at Erfurt was considered one of the premier German institutions of higher learning.{{sfn|Dickman|2013}} At Erfurt, he [[Matriculation|matriculated]] in the Faculty of Arts, and by the 1516–7 winter [[semester]] had obtained his [[Baccalaureus artium]], enabling him to teach, and he returned to Wemding to open a private school, at the age of 17.{{sfn|Dobat|2022}} It was at Erfurt that he began his friendship with his contemporary, [[Joachim Camerarius]].{{sfn|Melanchthon|2005}}{{sfn|Fichtner|1968}}

On 28 June 1519 he started classes at the ''[[Hochschule]]'' ([[University of Ingolstadt]]), 62&nbsp;km east of Wemding. There he studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew under, [[Johann Reuchlin]] and [[Jacob Ceporinus]] together with some philosophy and botany, and obtained his [[Magister Artium]] on 17 January 1521. During this time he became acquainted with the writings of [[Martin Luther]], another graduate of Erfurt, and adopted the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] faith.{{sfn|Roth|1897}} He then began to study medicine, obtaining his [[Medicinae Doctor]] on 1 March 1524.{{sfn|Rath|1961}}{{sfn|Dobat|2022}}{{sfn|Melanchthon|2005}}
 
From 1524 to 1526, he practised as a doctor in [[Munich]], until he was offered the chair of medicine at the University of Ingolstadt in 1526. The university was firmly [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and carefully monitored the religious practices and opinions of its professors, creating problems for Fuchs, given his Lutheran views. Thus, in 1528 he accepted a position in [[Ansbach]] (then Onoltzbach or Onsbach) as personal physician to [[George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]], a [[Protestantism|Protestant]]. The position, which he held to 1531, came with a promise of a professorship at a university the Margrave was planning to found there.{{sfn|Kusukawa|1997|p=416}}{{sfn|Dobat|2022}}{{sfn|Rath|1961}} 

Fuchs was called to [[Tübingen]] by [[Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg]], in 1533 to help in reforming the [[University of Tübingen]] in the spirit of [[humanism]]. He created its first medicinal garden in 1535 and served as chancellor seven times, spending the last thirty-one years of his life as professor of medicine. Fuchs died in Tübingen in 1566.{{sfn|Rath|1961}}

Whilst practising in Munich he met and married Anna Catherina Friedberger, the daughter of a city councillor,{{efn|Anna Friedberger was described as "a most virtuous maiden, of respectable station, well brought up{{sfn|Pavord|2005|p=298}}}} (b. 1500 – d. 24 February 1563) in 1524. With her he had 4 sons and 6 daughters, two of whom died in infancy.{{sfn|Dobat|2022}}{{sfn|Melanchthon|2005}}{{sfn|Smeets|2022}}