20 THE NEW BIOLOGY 



HIERONYMUS BOCK^ 



1498-1554 



New. Kreutter Buoh von underseheydt, wiirokung und namen der Kreutter, 

 so in teutsohen Landen waohsen, &o. Fol. Strasb. 1539. Parts 1 and 2 

 only. 



Kreuter Buoh, &o. Second edition, with figures. Fol. Strasb. 1546. 

 Part 3, also with figures, was published at the same time. 



Hieronymi Tragi de stirpium, maxime earum quae in Germania nostra 

 nasountur . , . libri tres . . . interprete Davide Kybero. 4to. Strasb. 1552. 



Bock, a native of Baden, was destined by his parents 

 for the cloister, but wben he grew to manhood, he came, 

 like Brunfels, under the influence of the new doctrines, 

 began to study medicine and botany in addition to 

 theology and philosophy, and at length took the decisive 

 steps of removing to Zweibriicken in the Palatinate, 

 setting up as a schoolmaster, and marrying. It was 

 no doubt an important promotion for him when he 

 was called upon to attend the duke of Zweibriicken 

 as physician, and to supervise his botanic garden. Some 

 years later he was rewarded by a sinecure canonry at 

 Hornbach, a few miles from Zweibriicken. Protestantism 

 was then spreading in all parts of the Rhineland, and in 

 all ranks of society. The dukes whom Bock served, and 

 even the abbot of Hornbach, favoured the Eeformation, so 

 that Bock, a married man, who had moreover undertaken 

 the functions of a Lutheran pastor, without apparently 

 any ecclesiastical sanction, was allowed for many years to 

 share the emoluments of an ancient monastic foundation. 

 In spite of his varied employments, for he is believed 

 to have practised both divinity and medicine, he found 

 time for oft-repeated botanical excursions, which he 



1 The latest and beat account of the life of Book is that of F. W E Roth 

 (Botan. GentralU., 1898, pp. 265-271; 313-8; 344-7). For information eon- 

 ceming the botanical merits of the Krduterhuch E. L. Greene's Landmarlcs, 

 pt. 1, pp. 220-64, may also be consulted. 



