# Theophrastus

> Aristotle's successor at the Lyceum wrote the first systematic studies of plant life — two treatises that stood as botany's foundation for centuries and earned him a nickname still used today.

*Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** -371
- **Died:** -287
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Tyrtamos in Eresos around 371 BC, he came to Athens young and studied under Plato before attaching himself to Aristotle, who admired his eloquence enough to rename him Theophrastus — "divine speaker." When Aristotle fled Athens, Theophrastus inherited the Lyceum and ran it for thirty-six years, during which the Peripatetic school flourished. His "Enquiry into Plants" and "On the Causes of Plants" laid botany's groundwork, and his range stretched wide: ethics, metaphysics, grammar, logic, stones, the senses. He saw space as the arrangement of bodies, time as motion's shadow, happiness as shaped by circumstance as much as virtue. Athens gave him a public funeral around 287 BC.

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## Topics
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