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From: "James Mouse" <>
Subject: RE: [ALS-LOR] Leonhard FUCHS
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:58:01 -0500


Nope!

Jim


>From:
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>To:
>Subject: [ALS-LOR] Leonhard FUCHS
>Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:16:33 EST
>
>Well, as long as we've learned something about the nuclear spy, Klaus Emil
>FUCHS, I'd like to pose a question regarding Leonhard FUCHS, the famous
>botanist
>from Wemding who was born around 1501.
>
>In his lifetime he learned several languages, learned medicine at Tubingen
>and was invited by the Medici family to become a court physician, but
>declined.
>
>Throughout his life Leonhard was intrigued with plants and vegetation, an
>interest which led him to compile a botanical encyclopedia, Die Historia
>Stirpium, which was illustrated with woodcuts. The flower genus, fuschia,
>is named
>after him.
>
>A product of Catholicism (his grandfather was a priest), Leonhard grew up
>as
>Martin Luther came to the fore and, apparently influenced by him, broke
>from
>his past and became a follower of the Lutheran sect. When he died he left
>several sons and daughters.
>
>Is anyone aware of his line of descendents forward since his death?
>
>Stephen Fuchs
>Chatsworth, CA
>
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