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Andreas Libavius
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<p>Andreas Libavius or Andrew Libavius was born in <a href="/facts/Halle_(Saale)/hJ3EBuMn">Halle</a>, Germany c. 1550 and died in July 1616. Libavius was a renaissance man who spent time as a professor at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Jena/Kv3JXbEL">University of Jena</a> teaching history and poetry. After which he became a physician at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg and later founded the Gymnasium at Coburg. Libavius was most known for practicing <a href="/facts/Alchemy/CEx0U1Em">alchemy</a> and writing a book called <i>Alchemia</i>, one of the first chemistry textbooks ever written. </p>