Note 3 — Chapter I · The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to Kaspar Bauhin[2].
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
Otto Brunfels, born at Mainz before the year 1500, was at first a student of theology and a monk; becoming a convert to Protestantism he was actively engaged at Strassburg first as a teacher and afterwards as a physician; he died in 1534.