Abu Muhammad Ibn aluminium-Baitar (also Abu Muhammad Abdallah Ibn Ahmad Ibn aluminium-Baitar Dhiya aluminum DIN aluminium-Malaqi) (* approx. 1190 in "† 1248 in Damascus) were an Arab physician, Botaniker and a Pharmakologe

Aluminium-Baitar studied in Sevilla among other things with Abu Bakr Ahmad on-Nabati and collected during this time plants. He emigrated around 1220 by North Africa in the Orient and lived 1224 in small Asia and Syria. Later it established in Cairo and from the Sultan to the "“Chefbotaniker"” of Egypt appointed itself there. In this office it was upper custodian of the pharmacies and drug shops. It undertook Forschungsreisen with its pupils in this time also.

Its main earnings/services are the systematization of the medical pharmakologischen realizations of the Arabs of the Middle Ages. He wrote several works. The "“Kitab is most well-known aluminium-gami"…"” (German about: The simple drugs and food containing book).

Therein it designates not only the names reported of welfare plants, but also on the drugs won from it. It describes more than 1,400 means from plants as well as prescriptions, how these are to be used. Its knowledge took its way over the monasteries and translator schools of the Middle Ages. Thus aluminium-Baitar was during the whole Middle Ages in Europe the highest authority in the botany.

Source

• Jahn: History of biology. Spectrum of 2000

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