Leonhard Rauwolf
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Leonhard Rauwolf was a German physician, botanist, and traveller. His main notability arises from a trip he made through the Levant and Mesopotamia in 1573–75. The motive of the trip was to search for
The front page of Rauwolff's travel book dated 1582
Leonhard Rauwolf: "Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raiß inn die Morgenländer." First edition, Lauingen, 1582. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Carolus Clusius
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Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.
Leonhard Rauwolf
…and University of Valence. He was a pupil of Guillaume Rondelet in Montpellier in 1560. In 1564 he had the benefit of visiting the renowned botanist Carolus Clusius (who once had been a student of Rondelet too). In 1565 he set up a medical practice in his hometown, Augsburg, in Bavaria. In that year he married…
Carolus Clusius 1585