GASPARD See also:

• GASPARD BAUHIN (156o-1624)

BAUHIN (156o-1624)  , Swiss botanist and anatomist, was the son of a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French physician, See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• BAUHIN, GASPARD (156o-1624)

Bauhin (1511-1582), who had to leave his native See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country on becoming a convert to Protestantism . He was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel on the 17th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 156o, and devoting himself to See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, he pursued his studies at See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua, See also:

• MONTPELLIER

Montpellier, and some of the celebrated See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor, and gave private lectures in See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany and See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy . In 1582 he was appointed to the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of anatomy and botany . He was afterwards made See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city physician, See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of the practice of medicine, See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of the university, and See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

dean of his See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty . He died at Basel on the 5th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1624 . He published several See also:

• WORKS

works relative to botany, of which the most valuable was his Pinax Theatri Botanici, seu See also:

• INDEX

Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinii, et botanicorum qui a seculo scripserunt See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera (1596) . Another See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• WORK

work which he planned was a Theatrum Botanicum, meant to be comprised in twelve parts See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio, of which he finished three; only one, however, was published (1658) . He also gave a copious See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of the See also:

• PLANTS

plants growing in the environs of Basel, and edited the works of P . A . Mattioli (1500-1577) with considerable additions . He likewise wrote on anatomy, his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal work on this subject being Theatrum Anatomicum infinitis locis auctum (1592) .

His son, JEAN GASPARD BAUIIIN (16o6-1685), was professor of botany at Basel for See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years . His See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

brother, JEAN BAUIUN (1541-1613), after studying botany at See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen under Leonard See also:

• FUCHS, JOHANN NEPOMUK VON (1774-1856)
• FUCHS, LEONHARD (15o1-1566)

Fuchs (1501-1566), and travelling with See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad See also:

• GESNER
• GESNER, ABRAHAM (1797-1864)
• GESNER, JOHANN MATTHIAS (1691—1761)

Gesner, began to practise medicine at Basel, where he was elected professor of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric in 1766 . Four years later he was invited to become physician to the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• WURTTEMBERG

Wurttemberg at See also:

• MONTBELIARD

Montbeliard, where he remained till his See also:

• DEATH

death in 1613 . He devoted himself absolutissima, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, was not See also:

• COMPLETE

complete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650--165r, the Prodromus having appeared at the same See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in 1619 . He also wrote a See also:

• BOOK

book De aquis medicatis (1605) .