Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833)[1] was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde (1792–99 in four volumes with later editions running to five) and several other medical reference works.
- ^ His first name is sometimes spelled Curt but this is usually seen only in works in Latin, where the name is abbreviated from the Latin form Curtius.