Otto Brunfels

Otto Brunfels
Portrait by Hans Baldung, c. 1534
Born1488 (1488)
near Mainz, Electorate of Mainz
Died23 November 1534(1534-11-23) (aged 45–46)
Bern, Swiss Confederacy
EducationUniversity of Mainz
ChurchLutheran
WritingsCatalogi virorum illustrium
Herbarum vivae eicones

Otto Brunfels (also known as Brunsfels or Braunfels) (believed to be born in 1488 – 23 November 1534) was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".

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