About Johann Ferdinand Hertodt
Lived 1645 – 1724 (aged 78–79). Johann Ferdinand Hertodt was a physician.
Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld (1645–1724) was a German physician and writer, born in the town Nikolsburg, today Mikulov in Moravia.
He is known for his 1671 work Crocologia, entirely devoted to saffron. He was also an alchemical writer, in the Epistolam contra Philalethem, a botanical and geological in Tartaro-Mastix Moraviae (1669), and a medical in Opus mirificum sextae diei (1670).
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Who was Johann Ferdinand Hertodt?
German writer
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Johann Ferdinand Hertodt was born in 1645 in Mikulov.
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Johann Ferdinand Hertodt died in 1724 in Brno.
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Johann Ferdinand Hertodt was a physician.
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