, professor of medicine and botany at Strasbourg, in the seventeenth century,
, professor of medicine
and botany at Strasbourg, in the seventeenth century, was
the contemporary and friend of the two learned brothers,
John and Caspar Bauhin, to whom he communicated several new plants which he had discovered. In honour of
him, a species of the genus Psederota, which he first. made
known, was named Ageria. He was likewise eminent for
his knowledge of natural philosophy and natural history
in all its branches. He published “Disputatio de Zoophytis;
” Strasburgh, De Anima Vegetativa,
” ibid. De Homine sano et de Dysenteria,
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