GASPARD

BAUHIN (156o-1624)  , Swiss botanist and anatomist, was the son of a French physician, Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism . He was born at Basel on the 17th of January 156o, and devoting himself to medicine, he pursued his studies at Padua, Montpellier, and some of the celebrated schools in Germany . Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of doctor, and gave private lectures in botany and anatomy . In 1582 he was appointed to the Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany . He was afterwards made city physician, professor of the practice of medicine, rector of the university, and dean of his faculty . He died at Basel on the 5th of December 1624 . He published several works relative to botany, of which the most valuable was his Pinax Theatri Botanici, seu Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinii, et botanicorum qui a seculo scripserunt opera (1596) . Another great work which he planned was a Theatrum Botanicum, meant to be comprised in twelve parts folio, of which he finished three; only one, however, was published (1658) . He also gave a copious catalogue of the 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 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

thirty years . His elder brother, JEAN BAUIUN (1541-1613), after studying botany at Tubingen under Leonard Fuchs (1501-1566), and travelling with Conrad Gesner, began to practise medicine at Basel, where he was elected professor of rhetoric in 1766 . Four years later he was invited to become physician to the duke of Wurttemberg at Montbeliard, where he remained till his death in 1613 . He devoted himself absolutissima, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, was not complete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650--165r, the Prodromus having appeared at the same place in 1619 . He also wrote a book De aquis medicatis (1605) .