Editing Leonhart Fuchs

{{Short description|German physician and botanist (1501–1566)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Leonhart Fuchs
| image = Renaissance C14 Füllmaurer Leonhart Fuchs.jpg
| caption = Portrait by {{ill|v=ib|Heinrich Füllmaurer|de}}, Tübingen,&nbsp;1541
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1501|1|17}}
| birth_place = [[Wemding]], Duchy of Bavaria<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->, {{awrap|Holy Roman Empire<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->}}
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1566|5|10|1501|1|17}}
| death_place = [[Tübingen]], Duchy of Württemberg<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->, {{awrap|Holy Roman Empire}}
| fields = [[Botany]]
| workplaces = [[University of Tübingen]]
| education = {{Plainlist|
* [[University of Erfurt]]
* [[University of Ingolstadt]] (M.D., 1524)
}}
| notable_students = [[Johann Bauhin]]
}}

'''Leonhart Fuchs''' ({{IPA|de|ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈfʊks|lang}}; 17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566),{{sfn|Rath|1961}} sometimes spelled '''Leonhard Fuchs'''{{efn|For the alternative spelling ''Leonhard'', see for example {{harvtxt|Sachs|1890|p=13}} and {{harvtxt|Vines|1913}}
}} and cited in Latin as ''Leonhartus Fuchsius'',{{sfn|Heilbronn|2022}} was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, a [[herbal]], which was first published in 1542 in [[Latin]]. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from [[woodcut]]s. The drawings are the book's most notable advance on its predecessors. Although drawings had been used in other herbal books, Fuchs's book proved and emphasized high-quality drawings as the most telling way to specify what a plant name stands for.

== 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}}

== Work ==
While working at Ansbach, Fuchs began his long career of scientific publications, beginning with his ''Errata recentiorum medicorum'' (Errors of modern doctors){{sfn|Fuchs|1530}} in 1530, which he dedicated to his new patron. In this list of 60 "errors", Fuchs took a stand on the controversy between "Arabist" and Greek medical traditions, siding solidly with the latter, and pointing out the contradictions. In places, he went too far in rejecting or ignoring some aspects of Arab medicine that were uncontested. He also criticized the confusion in nomenclature which led to the production of medicines that did not demonstrate the alleged effects. The book was well received by some, with Brunfels reproducing it in the second volume of his own herbal (''Novi herbarii'') in 1531. From others it evoked fury.{{sfn|Kusukawa|1997|p=418}} Fuchs rebutted "Arabist" criticisms of the work in his ''Paradoxorum medicinae'' (1535), an expanded version of the ''Errata''.{{sfn|Zathammer2021}}{{sfn|Dobat|2022}} 

Of his works on [[botanical illustration]], the ''Codex Fuchs'' (''Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus'') is considered the most significant example of the Renaissance, with nine volumes, consisting of 1529 coloured plates. Those that are signed, are by Ziegler or Meyer.{{sfn|Lack|2021|pp=36–45}}

=== Scientific views ===
Like his [[Medieval medicine of Western Europe|medieval predecessors]] and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and ''[[materia medica]]'', [[Dioscorides]], [[Hippocrates]], and [[Galen]].{{sfn|Kusukawa|1997|pp=419–420}} He wanted to fight the Arab hegemony in medicine, as it had been transmitted by the [[Schola Medica Salernitana|Medical School of Salerno]], and to "return" to the Greek authors.{{sfn|Rath|1961}}{{sfn|Kusukawa|1997|p=421}} Fuchs argued in favour of a return to using herbes medicinales ("simples"), in contrast to the arcane and often noxious "compounds" of medieval prescribing.{{sfn|Asher|2022}}{{sfn|Tobyn et al|2011}} But he also saw the importance of practical experience as well and offered botanical field days for the students, where he demonstrated the medicinal plants ''in situ''.{{cn|date=May 2022}} He founded one of the first German [[botanical garden]]s.{{sfn|Dickman|2013}} 
 
Fuchs, together with Brunfels and Bock, published herbals, and their joint efforts marked a mid-sixteenth century German botanical renaissance, each acknowledging the contributions of the others. Their connection to medicine ensured a wide and enduring audience, both professional and vernacular. The authority of these authors was based on the principles of [[medical humanism]].{{sfn|Johnson|2008|pp=145–146}}

=== Selected publications ===
[[File:Portrait of Leonhart Fuchs aged 41 Wellcome L0035308.jpg|thumb|upright|{{center|Fuchs, aged 41}}]]
Leonhart Fuchs wrote more than 50 books and polemics. Fuchs's books on the anatomy of the eye and its diseases were among the standard references on this subject during this period.
{{refbegin|30em}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fuchs |first1=Leonhart |title=Errata recentiorum medicorum, 60. numero, adiectis eorundem confutationibus, in studiosorum gratiam, iam primum aedita. Leonardo Fuchsio medico, authore |trans-title=Errors of modern doctors|date=1530 |publisher=in aedibus Iohannis Secerii |location=Hagenau |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ac_tvpWJ3WoC |language=la}} 
* ''Compendiaria in artem medendi introductio […].'' Hagenau 1531
* ''Hippocratis medicorum omnium longe principis Epidemiorum liber sextus'' 1532
* ''Paradoxorum medicinae III'' (1535)
* ''Alle Kranckheyt der Augen'' (All diseases of the eye) (1539)
* ''De Historia Stirpium commentarii insignes'', Isingrin, Basel 1542
* ''Codex Fuchs'', Tübingen 1536–1566{{sfn|Lack|2021|pp=36–45}}
{{refend}}

Together with [[Joachim Camerarius]] and [[Hieronymus Gemusaeus]], he published a complete edited edition of the works of [[Galen]], which was printed by [[Andreas Cratander]] in 1538.{{sfn|Kelsey|2017}}  
 
==== ''De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes'' ====
{{main|De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes}}
''De historia'' is Fuchs's major work, a large book about plants and their uses as medicines (a [[herbal]]). The book first appeared in [[Latin]] in 1542, and was rapidly translated into other languages. Although the text is largely borrowed from earlier authors, and is not based on any system of classification, with its 512 plates it set a new standard in [[botanical illustration]]. The accurate and detailed drawings, printed from [[woodcuts]], were the most notable advance on its predecessors. Although drawings had been used in other herbal books, Fuchs's book proved and emphasized high-quality drawings as the most telling way to specify what a plant name stands for.{{sfn|Fuchs|1999|p=i 11}} However, it was too erudite and too expensive to replace existing herbals.{{sfn|Johnson|2008|p=146}}

== Legacy ==
Fuchs's name is commemorated in many ways in his home town of Wemding, which has adopted the nickname of ''Fuchsienstadt'' (Fuchsia City), used the colour [[Fuchsia (color)|Fuchsia]] as its theme and decorated public places with plantings of ''[[Fuchsia]]''. The house where he was born (''Geburtshaus Leonhart Fuchs'') bears a plaque. Because it is so small, it is known as the ''Zwergenhäuschen'' (dwarf house). The plaque reads:{{sfn|Wemding|2022}} 
<blockquote>''1501–1566. Hier ist geboren Leonhart Fuchs, berühmter Arzt und Botaniker. Nach ihm wurde die Fuchsie benannt''<br>(1501–1566. Leonhart Fuchs, a famous doctor and botanist, was born here. The fuchsia was named after him)</blockquote>
For the 500th anniversary of his birth, a glass and steel pavilion for the fuchsia collection, the ''Fuchsienpavillon'' (Fuchsia house), was opened in 2001 in the [[Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen]].{{sfn|Schmolke|2007}}

There is a [[cultivar]] of ''Fuchsia'' named 'Wemding' (1993), there is a ''Fuchsienrundgang'' (fuchsia tour) each year in Wemding, together with the creation of a fuchsia pyramid. There is a ''Fuchsien- und Kräutermarkt'' (fuchsia and herb market), some local businesses are named after Fuchs,{{sfn|Wemding|2022}} and there is a Leonhart-Fuchs School.{{sfn|Mittelschule|2022}}

Fuchs, together with his two older German colleagues, [[Otto Brunfels]] (1488–1534) and [[Hieronymus Bock]] (1498–1554),{{efn|Arber adds [[Valerius Cordus]] (1515–1544) to this list of fathers of botany{{sfn|Arber|1986|p=74}}}} has been described as a father of botany (or a German father of botany){{sfn|Arber|1986|p=64}} establishing it as a scientific discipline independent from medicine in the sixteenth century,{{sfn|Dickman|2013}}{{sfn|Johnson|2008|pp=145–146}} and a principal representative of [[Galen#Legacy|New Galenism]].{{sfn|Mittelschule|2022}}{{sfn|Bacalexi|2014}} His portrait forms the [[Book frontispiece|frontispiece]] of [[Agnes Arber]]'s book on herbals.{{sfn|Arber|1986}} After his death, the manuscript and plates of his ''Historia'' were placed in the [[Austrian National Library|Österreichische Nationalbibliothek]], Vienna, where it has remained.{{sfn|Mittelschule|2022}} 

=== Eponymy (proper name) ===
Fuchs's name is preserved by the plant ''[[Fuchsia]]'',{{sfn|Open Book|2013}} discovered in the [[Dominican Republic]] in the Caribbean in 1696/97 by the French scientist and [[Order of Minims|Minim]] friar [[Charles Plumier]]. He published the first description of "''Fuchsia triphylla, flore coccineo"'' in 1703. The dye [[fuchsine]] (fuchsin, rosaniline hydrochloride or magenta) is named after the flower, and thus, the color [[Fuchsia (color)|fuchsia]] is indirectly named after Fuchs. The dye, developed in 1859, was given the name of fuchsine in France by its original manufacturer Renard frères et Franc because its color was similar to color of flowers of certain ''Fuchsia'' species, as well as the fact that ''Renard'' in French and ''Fuchs'' in German both mean fox.{{sfn|Chevreul|1861}}{{sfn|Kalba|2017|pp=109,148}}  

Fuchs is also recognised in the [[specific epithet]] of the a plant widespread over Europe and northern Asia: the common spotted orchid, ''[[Dactylorhiza fuchsii]]''.

{{Botanist|L.Fuchs}}

== See also ==
* [[Learned medicine]]
* [[Medical Renaissance]]
* [[History of herbalism]]
* [[Lactofuchsin mount]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{Reflist|20em}}

== Bibliography ==
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=== Books, dictionaries and encyclopaedias ===
* {{cite book|last1=Arber|first1=Agnes|authorlink=Agnes Arber|editor-last=Stearn|editor-first=William T.|editor-link=William T. Stearn|title=Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470–1670|date=1986|orig-date=1912; 2nd ed. 1938|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521338790|edition=3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nxQx8aYmMMC}}{{link note|note=2nd ed. (1938) [https://archive.org/details/herbalstheirorig0000arbe_a1e8/mode/2up? available] on [[Internet Archive]]}}  
* {{cite book |editor-last1=Dressendörfer |editor-first1=Werner |last=Fuchs|first=Leonhart|title=  The New Herbal |date=2022 |publisher=[[Taschen]] |isbn=978-3-8365-8766-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tx3DzgEACAAJ }}{{link note|note=Coloured version of German edition, ''New Kreüterbuch'', Basell 1543, in Stadt Bibliothek, [[Ulm]] }}
** {{harvc |last=Dobat |first=Klaus |author-link1=|year=2022 |c=Leonhart Fuchs: Physician and pioneer of modern botany |url=|pp=6–26 |in=Fuchs}}
* {{cite book |last1=Lack |first1=H. Walter |title=A Garden Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration |date=2021 |publisher=[[Taschen]] |isbn=978-3-8365-7739-7 |url=https://www.google.com/books/?9eAizgEACAAJ }}
* {{cite book |last1=Melanchthon |first1=Philipp |editor-last=Scheible |editor-first=Heinz |authorlink1=Philipp Melanchthon|title=Melanchthons Briefwechsel: kritische und kommentierte Gesamtausgabe |trans-title=Melanchthon's correspondence: critical and annotated complete edition|volume=12 (F–K)|date=2005 |publisher=Frommann-Holzboog |location=Stuttgart|isbn=978-3-7728-2258-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpTYAAAAMAAJ |language=de|chapter=Fuchs, Leonhard|pages=102–103}}
* {{cite book |last=Fuchs|first=Leonhart|editor-last1=Meyer |editor-first1=Frederick Gustav |editor-last2=Trueblood |editor-first2=Emily W. Emmart |editor-last3=Heller |editor-first3=John Lewis |title=The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, 1542. ii vols.  |date=1999 |orig-year=1542|publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8047-1631-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCGdBd4TaswC }}
** {{cite journal |last1=Tancin |first1=Charlotte A |title=Meyer, Frederick G., Emily Emmart Trueblood and John L. Heller. The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes, 1542 (Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants). Vol. 1, Commentary. Vol. 2, Facsimile. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. Vol. 1, col. frontisp. (port.), xxiv, 895 pp., 106 col. plates (ports., illus.) Vol. 2, [xxviii], 896, [4] pp. (ports., illus.). $299.50. {{text|ISBN}} 0-8047-1631-5 |journal=[[Huntia (journal)|Huntia]] |date=2000 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=88–91 |url=https://www.huntbotanical.org/admin/uploads/07hibd-huntia-11-1-pp87-92.pdf|type=Review}}
* {{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Christine R. |title=The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous |date=2008 |publisher=[[University of Virginia Press]] |isbn=978-0-8139-2712-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwX-ul_Q58UC }}
* {{cite book |last1=Kalba |first1=Laura Anne |title=Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art |date=2017 |publisher=[[Penn State University Press|Penn State Press]] |isbn=978-0-271-07978-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKB1DgAAQBAJ }}
* {{cite book |last1=Kusukawa |first1=Sachiko |title=Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany |date= 2012 |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |isbn=978-0-226-46528-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uf57fzVe9kYC }}
* {{cite book|last1=Pavord|first1=Anna|authorlink=Anna Pavord|title=The naming of names the search for order in the world of plants.|date=2005|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing USA]] |location=New York|isbn=978-1-59691-965-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qksX1BeWkqcC}}{{link note|note= [https://books.google.com/books?id=wvP92qGbI08C additional excerpts] }}
* {{cite book|last1=Sachs|first1=Julius von|authorlink=Julius von Sachs|title=Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860|trans-title=[[History of Botany (1530-1860)|History of botany (1530–1860)]]|date=1890|orig-date=1875|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|translator= Henry E. F. Garnsey|others=Revised by [[Isaac Bayley Balfour]]|url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/30585#/summary|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.30585}}, see also {{Google books|iT5-CgAAQBAJ|History of botany (1530-1860)}}
* {{cite book |last1=Schmolke |first1=Birgit |title=Architektur neues Baden-Württemberg |date=2007 |publisher=Braun |isbn=978-3-938780-12-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fhw3GQAACAAJ |chapter=Fuchsienpavillon|language=de}}
* {{cite book |last1=Tobyn |first1=Graeme |last2=Denham |first2=Alison |last3=Whitelegg |first3=Midge |title=The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge |date=2011 |publisher=[[Singing Dragon]] |isbn=978-0-85701-259-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSRzCwAAQBAJ|chapter=Historical sources|pages=1–22|chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301104680|ref={{harvid|Tobyn et al|2011}} }}
* {{cite book | last= Vines|first= Sydney Howard | chapter = Robert Morison 1620–1683 and John Ray 1627–1705 | year = 1913 | editor = Oliver, Francis Wall | title = Makers of British botany | url = https://archive.org/details/makersofbritishb00olivuoft | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = [https://archive.org/details/makersofbritishb00olivuoft/page/9 9]}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Egerton |first1=Frank N. III |title=Fuchs, Leonhart | editor-last=Koertge |editor-first=Noretta |editor-link=Noretta Koertge|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/fuchs-leonhart |encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Scientific Biography|Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]|date=2007}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last1= EB|title= Leonhard Fuchs: German botanist and physician|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonhard-Fuchs|publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |accessdate=9 July 2022 |date=6 May 2022}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last=Chevreul|first=Michel-Eugène E|author-link=Michel Eugène Chevreul|url=https://archive.org/details/rpertoiredephar65unkngoog/page/n66|title=Note sur les étoffes de soie teintes avec la fuchsine, et réflexions sur la commerce des étoffes de couleur  |journal=Répertoire de Pharmacie |publisher=Baillière |year=1861 |location=Paris |volume=17|pages=62–65|language=fr}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Fichtner |first1=G |title=Neues zu Leben und Werk von Leonhart Fuchs aus seinen Briefen an Joachim Camerarius I. und II. in der Trew-Sammlung|trans-title =Recent information on the life and work of Leonhart Fuchs from his letters to Joachim Camerarius I. and II. in the Trew collection |journal=[[Gesnerus]] |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=ges-001%3A1968%3A25%3A%3A69|date=1968 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=65–82 |doi=10.1163/22977953-0250102005 |pmid=4894838|lang=de|doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kusukawa |first1=Sachiko |title=Leonhart Fuchs on the Importance of Pictures |journal=[[Journal of the History of Ideas]] |date=1997 |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=403–427 |doi=10.2307/3653907|pmid=11619413|jstor=3653907}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Röcker |first1=Bernd |title=Die Heilbronner Lateinschule und ihre Rektoren vor der Reformation |journal=Heilbronnica (1). Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Stadt Heilbronn 11) |trans-title=The Heilbronn Latin School and its Rectors before the Reformation |url=https://stadtarchiv.heilbronn.de/fileadmin/daten/stadtarchiv/online-publikationen/heilbronnica/02-roecker-lateinschule-22-qf11-heilbronnica-1.pdf|date=2000 |pages=31–58 |publisher=Stadtarchiv Heilbronn |language=de}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Bacalexi |first1=Dina |title=Ancient medicine, humanistic medicine: the Renaissance commentaries of Galen, transmission and transformation of knowledge |work=International Conference Scientiae 2014: Disciplines of knowing in the Early Modern World, Scientiae International Research Group |date=April 2014 |url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01639720/document |publisher=HAL |location=Vienna}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Roth |first1=Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil |title=Leonhard Fuchs, ein deutscher Botaniker, 1501–1566 |journal=Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt |date=1897 |volume=8 |issue=3|pages=161–191 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/27103#page/807/mode/1up |language=de}}

=== Websites ===
* {{cite web |last1=Smeets |first1=Herman Leonard |title=Leonard (Leonhart) "(Dr.) Leonard Fuchs, Professor, Mediziner und Botaniker" Fuchs (1501–1566) » Stamboom Smeets/Berendsen » Genealogy Online |url=https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-herman-en-claudia-smeets/I4072.php |website=Genealogy Online |publisher=Coret Genealogy |access-date=11 July 2022 |date=2022}}
* {{cite web |last1=Rath |first1=Gernot |title=Fuchs, Leonhart |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz69857.html?language=en |website=Neue Deutsche Biographie |access-date=8 July 2022 |pages=5: 681–682 |language=de |date=1961}}{{link note|note=see also [https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016321/images/index.html?id=00016321&groesser=&fip=eayaewqsdassdaseayaeayaenewqeayawyzts&no=3&seite=695 print version]}}
* {{cite web|last= Dickman|first=Rebecca|url=http://historicexhibits.lib.iastate.edu/botanists/leonhart_fuchs.html|title=Leonhart Fuchs|website=The Three Founders of Botany: Rare Works from Special Collections|publisher=[[Iowa State University]] Library|date=2013|access-date=8 June 2022}}
* {{cite web |last=Heilbronn|title=Leonhart Fuchs und sein "New Kreüterbuoch" von 1542 |url=https://stadtarchiv.heilbronn.de/stadtgeschichte/geschichte-a-z/f/fuchs-leonhart.html |website=Stadtgeschichte |publisher=Stadtarchiv Heilbronn |access-date=9 July 2022 |language=de |date=2022}}
* {{cite web |last1=Tyrrell |first1=Katherine |title=About Leonhart Fuchs |url=https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/about-leonhart-fuchs.html |website=Botanical Art & Artists |access-date=10 July 2022}}
* {{cite web |last=Wemding|title=Stadt Wemding: Die Fuchsienstadt |url=https://www.wemding.de/ |access-date=11 July 2022 |date=2022}}
* {{cite web|last=Open Book|title=Book of the Week – De Historia Stirpivm Commentarii Insignes| date=21 May 2013 |url=http://openbook.lib.utah.edu/?p=737|website=Open Book|publisher=J. Willard Marriott Library, [[University of Utah]]|access-date=12 July 2022}}
* {{cite web |last= Van Helden|first=Al |title=Fuchs, Leonhart |url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/fuchs.html |website=The Galileo Project |publisher=[[Rice University]]|access-date=15 July 2022 |date=1995}}
* {{cite web |last=Mittelschule|title=Namensgeber der Schule |url=https://www.l-fuchs-ms.de/startseite/leonhart-fuchs/ |website=Mittelschule Wemding – Leonhart Fuchs|access-date=15 July 2022 |language=de|date=2022}}
* {{cite web |last1=Spielman |first1=Andre I |title=Leonhart (Leonhard) Fuchs 1501–1566|url=https://dental.nyu.edu/aboutus/rare-book-collection/16-c/leonhart-fuchs.html |website=Rare book collection – 16th century  |publisher=[[NYU College of Dentistry]]|date=2022|access-date=19 July 2022 }}
* {{cite web |last1=Norman |first1=Jeremy M|title=History of Information |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/ |access-date=19 July 2022 |date=2022}}
** {{cite web |last1=Norman |title=Leonhard Fuchs' Unpublished Masterpiece of Renaissance Botany |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/#entry_3730 |access-date=20 July 2022 |date=2022a}}
** {{cite web |last1=Norman |title=Leonhard Fuchs, Albrecht Mayer, Heinrich Füllmaurer & Viet Rudolf Speckle Issue the First "Modern" Herbal, with Self-Portraits of the Artists |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/#entry_1836 |access-date=20 July 2022 |date=2022b}}
* {{cite web |last1=Trinity |title=Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) |url=https://www.tcd.ie/Botany/tercentenary/origins/leonhart-fuchs.php |website=Origins of Botany |publisher=Department of Botany, [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College, Dublin]] |access-date=20 July 2022 |date=24 February 2011}}
* {{cite web |last1=Kelsey |title=Galen of Pergamum |url=https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/art-science-healing/masters4.php |website=The Art and Science of Healing, from Antiquity to the Renaissance |publisher=[[Kelsey Museum of Archaeology]], University of Michigan |access-date=21 July 2022 |date=2017}}
* {{cite web |last1=Zathammer |first1=Stefan |title=Errata recentiorum medicorum |url=https://wiki.uibk.ac.at/noscemus/Errata_recentiorum_medicorum |website=Nova Scientia |publisher=University of Innsbruck |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=19 November 2021}}
* {{cite web |last1=Asher |title=Last edition during Fuchs life of his own revision of his first publication, promoting medical "simples" originally published 12 years before his great herbal, De historia stirpium |url=https://www.forumrarebooks.com/item/fuchs_leonart_paradoxorum_medicinae_libri_tres_paris_charlotta_guillard_.html?c=KCRG291IIT91 |website=Antiquariaat Forum: Medicine & Pharmacy pre 1700 |publisher=Asher Rare Books |date=2022}}
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