Andreas von Gundelsheimer

Andreas von Gundelsheimer, who lived from about 1668 until 17 June 1715, was a German physician and botanist born in Feuchtwangen. He took his medical doctorate at Altdorf near Nuremberg and then worked for several years in Venice. In Paris he became acquainted with the botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and between 1700 and 1702 he travelled with Tournefort and the painter Claude Aubriet on a research expedition to Asia Minor and Armenia. The large collection of plants he gathered on that journey was sent to herbaria in Berlin and Munich. In 1703 he settled in Berlin, where he became a physician to the Prussian royal court. He died on 17 June 1715 while accompanying King Friedrich Wilhelm I to Stettin.