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    Conrad Gessner

    Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)

    Conrad Gessner was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. Born into a poor family in Zürich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly realised his talents and supported him through university, where he studied classical languages, theology and medicine. He became Zürich's city physician, but was able to spend much of his time on collecting, research and writing. Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography and zoology and was working on a major botanical text at the time of his death from plague at the age of 49. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to describe species of plants or animals in Europe, such as the tulip in 1559. A number of plants and animals have been named after him. Wikipedia

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    Conrad Gessner was born on 26 March 1516, in Zürich, Switzerland, the son of Ursus Gessner, a poor Zürich furrier.His early life was one of poverty and hardship, [3] but Gessner's father realized his talents, and sent him to live with and be schooled by a great uncle, who grew and collected medicinal herbs for a living. Here the boy became familiar with many plants and their medicinal ...
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  4. britannica.com

    Dec 9, 2024Conrad Gesner (born March 26, 1516, Zürich, Swiss Confederation [Switzerland]—died December 13, 1565, Zürich) was a Swiss physician and naturalist best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants.. Education and career. Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle ...
  5. macroevolution.net

    In 1567, Gesner gave the earliest known description of a pencil. Gesner was the first scholar to describe the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) in Europe. Notes: Dates of birth and death: 26 March, 1516 — 13 December, 1565. Gesner was also known as: Konrad Gessner, Konrad Geßner, Conrad Gessner, Conrad Geßner, Conrad von Gesner, and Conradus ...
  6. encyclopedia.com

    GESSNER, CONRAD (also Konrad Gesner, 1516 - 1565). GESSNER, CONRAD (also Konrad Gesner, 1516 - 1565), polymath, philologist, theologian, naturalist, and town physician of Zurich from 1554. Gessner was born in 1516 into a family originally from Nuremberg.His father, Urs, was a furrier from Solothurn, Switzerland, who moved to Zurich, becoming a citizen there in 1511.
  7. simple.wikipedia.org

    Conrad Gessner (or Konrad Gessner, 26 March 1516 - 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is a forerunner of modern zoology. The flowering plant genus Gesneria is named after him. Career. He studied at ...
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  9. encyclopedia.com

    Konrad Gesner. 1516-1565. Swiss Physician, Zoologist, and Botanist. Gesner (also called "Gesnerus") was among the founders of modern zoology. He also made important contributions to botany, biology, natural history, and scientific bibliography. Born on March 26, 1516, in Zürich, Switzerland, Gesner was the son of a poor Protestant furrier ...
  10. mineralogicalrecord.com

    (Born: Zurich, Switzerland, 26 March 1516; Died: Zurich, Switzerland, 13 December 1565) Swiss polymath. Gesner received a classical education at Strasbourg, Bourges, Paris and Basel. He became professor of Greek, at the University of Lausanne, 1537-40. Gesner furthered his education by studying medicine at Montpellier and Basel, finally receiving his M.D. from the later in […]
  11. lindahall.org

    Mar 26, 2024Conrad Gessner, a Swiss naturalist, was born Mar. 26, 1516. Gessner was the most distinguished naturalist of the late Renaissance, a contemporary of, but also an inspiration for, Pierre Belon, Guillaume Rondelet, and Ulisse Aldrovandi. He was close to being an armchair naturalist, in that he primarily worked from his study and acquired his ...
  12. galileo.rice.edu

    Robert Lauterborn, "Konrad Gessner und die Tierkunde," in Der Rhein, (Freiburg, 1930), 1, 136-8. One source called this perhaps the best exposition of Gesner as zoologist. Alfredo Serrai, Conrad Gesner, ed. Maria Cochetti, (Rome, 1990). Lucian Braun, Conrad Gesner, (Geneva, 1990). If the review in the Archives is at all accurate, this may be ...
  13. link.springer.com

    Conrad Gessner numbers among Switzerland's most celebrated polymaths. Best known for his work as a bibliographer and zoologist, Gessner was also a gifted philologist, botanist, and paleontologist, whose contributions to these fields - and many more besides - were widely recognized in his lifetime.

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