The German pastor, teacher, botanist, doctor and court physician Hieronymus Bock (1498–1554) was initially a preacher in Hornbach and a teacher in Zweibrücken (Rhineland-Palatinate). He changed his surname to ‘Tragos’ or ‘Tragus’ (Greek for ‘billy goat’). Along with Otto Brunfels (1488–1534) and Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), Bock is counted among the ‘fathers of botany’. He is regarded as one of the first scholars to describe plants based on his own observations, thereby helping to shape the transition from medieval herbalism to scientific botany. His pupils presumably included the later botanist and herbalist Jakob Theodor Tabernaemontanus (c. 1522–1590), who is regarded as one of the most important authors of herbal books of the Renaissance.
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