Nikolaus Ager, name also spelled Nicolas Ager and sometimes referred to as Agerius (1568,

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– 26 June 1634,

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) was a physician and

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born in

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. He was the author of the treatise "De Anima Vegetativa" (1629).Google Books
The Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1, Issue 2 He studied medicine in

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, subsequently obtaining doctorates in medicine and philosophy in Strasbourg. In 1618 he became a professor of medicine and botany at Strasbourg.Deutsche Biographie
/ref> During his career, he worked closely with famed botanists

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and

Gaspard Bauhin Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Switzerland, Swiss botanist whose ''Pinax theatri botanici'' (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later ...

. In 1763

Michel Adanson Michel Adanson (7 April 17273 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. ...

named the genus ''Ageria'' (family

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) in his honor.

Written works

From 1623 to 1634 he published a series of

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s, a few of them being: "De vita et morte", "De nutritione", "De mente humana", "De monstris" and "De somno et insomniis". In 1602 he published a new edition of Walther Hermann Ryff's "''Reformierte Deütsche Apoteck''" (Reformed German chemist) as "''Newe ausgerüste deutsche Apoteck''".WorldCat Title
Newe Ausgeruste Deutsche Apoteck The following are a list of some of his better known works: * "Theses physico-medicae de homine sano", 1593. * "Disputatio de dyssenteria", 1593. * "Disputatio de Zoophytis", 1625. * "De Anima Vegetativa", 1629.

References

1568 births 1634 deaths Scientists from the Holy Roman Empire 17th-century botanists Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg {{France-botanist-stub