Who is konrad gesner

KidzSearch Safe Wikipedia for Kids. Jump to: navigation , search. Career He studied at Strasbourg , Bourges — and Paris. Works To his contemporaries he was best known as a botanist, though his botanical manuscripts were not published till long after his death at Nuremberg , —, 2 vols.

De rarum fossilium, lapidum et gemmarum maxime, figuris et similitudinibus liber. Grzimeks Tierleben. Grzimek, ed. Volume Kindler, Zurich. Developmental biology: Neither fat nor flesh. La sua Bibliotheca Universalis lo qualifica come il primo autore moderno di una bibliografia di ampio respiro. Daarnaast was hij een invloedrijk botanicus. Gessner nasceu e foi educado em Zurique, onde o seu pai trabalhava com peles de animais.

Em visitou a famosa universidade de medicina de Montpellier. Morreu de peste. Publicou Enchiridion historiae plantarum e Catalogus plantarum em quatro idiomas. Uma segunda parte, Pandeclarium sive partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri Ligurini libri xxi. Next we have two images, side by side, to show how Gessner improved his illustrations, when it was possible to do that. The left image, from the edition, shows an Egyptian ichneumon — charming, but not exactly drawn from life.

Belon did draw one from life for his book, and Gessner then included both images, old and new, in the Thierbuch. We also wanted to show what a difference coloring can make. Right below it we see the identical woodcut, as printed in the Thierbuch , but now colored quite differently. Our final image is special to us at the Library, the hedgehog from the Historia animalium. When the Library later decided to publish a quarterly magazine, it was named The Hedgehog , and Herbie graced the original masthead, although now he shares it with his many hedgehog cousins from some of our other works of natural history.

At the time, the accepted spelling for his name was Konrad Gesner, as it had always been. The Library of Congress was persuaded to change this a few years ago, in a move that was, in our opinion, not very well thought out.

Konrad von Gesner was born on March 26, , in Zurich. The man who was to become known as the German Pliny and to be ennobled by the Hapsburg emperor Ferdinand I began his life inauspiciously.

His father, a poor furrier, perished in the battle of Kappel in , as the wars spawned by the Reformation laid bloody hands on the Swiss cantons. Their generosity permitted Gesner to undertake studies at the University of Strassburg, where he displayed great linguistic talent and interest in nature.

Although he angered his guardians by marrying a beautiful but impoverished lady, Gesner was allowed to continue his studies at Basel, where he also studied medicine. Gesner secured the professorship in Greek at Lausanne in and speedily compiled a dictionary in that language.