Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus

Jacobus Theodorus, called Tabernaemontanus was a physician and an early botanist and herbalist, the "father of "German botany" whose illustrated Neuw Kreuterbuch (1588) or Eicones Plantarum was the result of a lifetime's botanizing and medical practice. It provided unacknowledged material for John Gerard's better-known Herball and was reprinted in Germany throughout the 17th century. His Latinised name is a compressed form of the original, Mediaeval Latin name Tabernae Montanus of his home town of Bergzabern in the Palatinate. .Tabernaemontanus began as a student of the pioneer of Renaissance botany, Hieronymus Bock.