Amato Lusitano (1511-1568) – Life and work of a 16th century botanist and physician during the escape from Portugal to the Ottoman Empire.

Abstract

Amato Lusitano, with his contributions to botany and medicine in theory and practice, his self-sacrificing therapy of patients of all classes and confessions, his ethical attitude and Hippocratic Oath (ius iurandum), is an outstanding Jewish naturalist and physician of the 16the century, with his escape and travel from Castelo Branco in Portugal through Europe to Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire a moving and stimulating exemplary fate between science, politics and religion of his time.