Jerome Glass of bier

See also: Glass of bier (homonymy)

Jerome Glass of bier or of his pen name Hieronymus Glass of bier , called Tragus , born in 1498 and died the February 21st 1554 in Hornbach (Palatinat), is a Pasteur Lutheran and a German Botaniste . With Otto Brunfels (v. 1488-1534), Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566) and Valerius Cordus (1515-1544), he is regarded as one of the German fathers of botany. He is also named the Goat and Tragos .

Intended by his parents to become monk, it is able to convince them that it is not made for a monastic life. Thanks to the assistance of the count Ludwig of the Palatinat, Bock can follow the courses of theology and medicine to the university and obtains a post of teacher with Deux-Ponts. It also has charges the gardens with them with the count but to died from this one, it returns in Hornbach where he becomes Pasteur Lutheran all as a practitioner medicine and continuing his research in botany.

The most important work of Glass of bier is its New Kreütter Büch which appears with Strasbourg in 1539. If the first edition is not illustrated, the following ones are it of 165 engravings on wood. Original engravings are the work of David Kandel (1520-1592) but of others are extracted from the books of Brunfels and Fuchs. It gives, in German, of original descriptions of the plants. Even if those are not very long, Bock tries to provide useful informations to their recognition. The first since Théophraste, it tries to classify the 800 species which it quotes. It gives up thus the alphabetical order and class the plants according to whether they wild or are cultivated, whether they are trees, shrubs or grasses.

Its book starts with the description of the Ortie. Usually, the works always started with the rarest species, that Bock begins its flora by an extremely common species constitutes a small revolution.

New Kreütter Büch is an immense success and will be republished more than ten times in one century in Strasbourg. The Nouvel herbarium of the plants which grow in Germany will be published in Strasbourg in 1539, folio, will be translated into Latin by David Kyber, Strasbourg, 1552.

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