Adam Lonicer

[1] He studied at Marburg and the University of Mainz, and obtained his Magister degree at sixteen years of age.

He became professor of Mathematics at the University of Marburg in 1553 and Doctor of Medicine in 1554, becoming the city physician (Stadtphysikus) in Frankfurt am Main.

His first important work on herbs, the Kräuterbuch, was published in 1557, a large part dealing with distillation.

Lonicer acknowledged his sources for the book, crediting Jean Ruelle, Valerius Cordus, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Hieronymus Braunschweig and Conrad Gessner.

Christian Egenolff died in 1555, and Lonicer became a director of the firm, publishing no fewer than four editions of the Kräuterbuch between 1557 and 1577.