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BAUHIN, GASPARD (156o-1624)

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BAUHIN, GASPARD (156o-1624) , Swiss botanist and anatomist, was the son of a See also:French physician, See also:Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), who had to leave his native See also:country on becoming a convert to Protestantism. He was See also:born at See also:Basel on the 17th of See also:January 156o, and devoting himself to See also:medicine, he pursued his studies at See also:Padua, See also:Montpellier, and some of the celebrated See also:schools in See also:Germany. Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of See also:doctor, and gave private lectures in See also:botany and See also:anatomy. In 1582 he was appointed to the See also:Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the See also:chair of anatomy and botany. He was afterwards made See also:city physician, See also:professor of the practice of medicine, See also:rector of the university, and See also:dean of his See also:faculty. He died at Basel on the 5th of See also:December 1624. He published several See also:works relative to botany, of which the most valuable was his Pinax Theatri Botanici, seu See also:Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinii, et botanicorum qui a seculo scripserunt See also:opera (1596). Another See also:great See also:work which he planned was a Theatrum Botanicum, meant to be comprised in twelve parts See also:folio, of which he finished three; only one, however, was published (1658). He also gave a copious See also:catalogue of the See also: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 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 years. His See also:elder See also:brother, JEAN BAUIUN (1541-1613), after studying botany at See also:Tubingen under Leonard See also:Fuchs (1501-1566), and travelling with See also:Conrad See also:Gesner, began to practise medicine at Basel, where he was elected professor of See also:rhetoric in 1766. Four years later he was invited to become physician to the See also:duke of See also:Wurttemberg at See also:Montbeliard, where he remained till his See also:death in 1613. He devoted himself absolutissima, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, was not See also:complete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650--165r, the Prodromus having appeared at the same See also:place in 1619. He also wrote a See also:book De aquis medicatis (1605).

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