Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian pharmacologist
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz
- Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz (18 November 1772 in Vienna – 15 December 1815 in Vienna), was an Austrian pharmacologist, a Doctor of the Healing Arts and Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Vienna, and is best known for Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum cum Earum Fructus ususque Descriptione (1800–1822), an 11-volume compilation of medicinal, culinary and decorative plant species consulted by pharmacologists during the early 1800s.
- The noted cartographic engraver, Ignaz Alberti, worked on the 1100 hand-coloured copperplate engravings on laid-watermarked paper and completed the work after the early death of Vietz.Volumes 1 and 2 were printed in Latin and German in adjacent columns.
- Volumes 3-10 have the title in German only.
- Volume 11 is a supplementary volume by Joseph Lorenz Kendl.
- In the introduction to Volume 1, Vietz lists a lengthy bibliography of consulted works, an enormous number of sponsors and a dedication to Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. Vietz's monumental work is extremely rare, and the British Natural History Museum writes: The work is “not being held in any other of the United Kingdom's national or public library collections.
- Only three copies have been found in North American libraries, of which two are certainly fragile and in need of conservation.
- One copy is in the Austrian National Library.” On his death, Vietz was succeeded by Joseph Bernt (1770–1842), as professor of state medicine.
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