Bernabé Cobo
Spanish Jesuit missionary and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bernabé Cobo (born at Lopera in Spain, 1582; died at Lima, Peru, 9 October 1657) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and writer. He played a part in the early history of quinine by his description of cinchona bark; he brought some to Europe on a visit in 1632.[1]
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He was a thorough student of nature and man in Spanish America. His long residence (61 years), his position as a priest and, several times, as a missionary, gave him unusual opportunities for obtaining reliable information. The Spanish botanist Cavanilles gave the name of Cobaea to a genus of plants belonging to the Polemoniaceae of Mexico, Cobaea scandens being its most striking representative.