Andreas Libavius or Andrew Libavius was born in Halle, Germany c. 1550 and dies in July 1616.

Libavius is a renaissance man who spends time as a professor at the University of Jena teaching history and poetry. after which he becomes a physician at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg and later founds the Gymnasium at Coburg.

Libavius is most known for practicing alchemy and writing a book called Alchemia, one of the first chemistry textbooks ever written.