Conrad Gessner
Botanist, Academic
1516 – 1565
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Who was Conrad Gessner?
Conrad Gessner was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. He was well known as a botanist, physician and classical linguist. His five-volume Historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria and its family Gesneriaceae are named after him. A genus of moths is also named Gesneria after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Gesner when citing a botanical name.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1516
Zürich - Also known as
- Konrad Gesner
- Konrad Gessner
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Strasbourg
- University of Bourges
- University of Basel
- Died
- Dec 13, 1565
Zürich
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on July 23, 2013
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