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]

References

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[ru] Дирбах, Иоганн Генрих