Johann Heinrich Dierbach (23 March 1788 in
Heidelberg – 11 May 1845 in Heidelberg) was a German
pharmacist and
botanist.
He studied medicine at the
University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1816. During the following year, he became a lecturer at Heidelberg and in 1820 an associate professor. At the university, he taught classes on subjects with botanical and medico-pharmacological themes.[1]
He was the author of numerous articles in botanical, medical and pharmaceutical journals. The plant genus Dierbachia (syn. Dunalia, family
Solanaceae) was named in his honor by
Kurt Sprengel.[1][2]
Selected works
Flora heidelbergensis (2 parts, 1819–20).
Die Arzneimitlel des Hippokrates, 1824 – The drug of
Hippocrates.
Die neuesten Entdeckungen in der Materia Medica, für praktische Aerzte geordnet (2 volumes, 1828) – The latest discoveries in
materia medica.
Abhandlung über die Arzneikräfte der Pflanzen : verglichen mit ihrer Structur und ihren chemischen Bestandtheilen (1831) – Treatise on the
medicinal properties of plants; comparison of their structure and chemical constituents.
Flora apiciana. Ein Beitrag zur näheren Kenntniss der Nahrungsmittel der alten Römer (1831) – Flora apiciana, contribution to the knowledge of the diet of the ancient Romans.
Flora mythologica oder Pflanzenkunde in bezug auf mythologie und symbolik der Griechen und Römer (1833) – Flora mythologica, or botany in regards to the mythology and symbolism of the Greeks and Romans.[3]