Johann Ferdinand Hertodt Explained

Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld (1645–1724)^[1] 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,^[2] a botanical and geological in Tartaro-Mastix Moraviae (1669),^[3] and a medical in Opus mirificum sextae diei (1670).

External links

• Old dictionary page

Notes and References

1. Dates from http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/historie/hist_1.htm (Czech language); name is given there as Hertod.
2. He used a pseudonym, Orpheus. See for his inclusion in a 1670 collection.
3. Chapter available online http://www.speleo.marvec.org/doc/mastix.pdf : PDF in Latin and Czech.