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Zur Frage, welche Schreibweise die richtige sei, herrscht in der Fachwelt keine Einigkeit. Conrad Gesner, Conrad also spelled Konrad, Gesner also spelled Gessner, (born March 26, 1516, Zürich, Swiss Confederation [Switzerland]—died December 13, 1565, Zürich), Swiss physician and naturalist best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Search Britannica
Noch im selben Jahr starben sowohl Gessners Vater wie auch Huldrych Zwingli im Das bekannteste Werk Gessners, der versuchte, das rasch wachsende Wissen seiner Epoche systematisch zu sichten und zu erschliessen, ist seine vierbändige In seinem letzten Lebensjahrzehnt plante Conrad Gessner eine umfangreiche botanische Enzyklopädie, die In Zürich erinnern ein Denkmal und der «Gessner–Garten», ein mittelalterlicher Noch 1946 wurden Abbildungen aus seiner Historia animalium in dem Kinderbuch
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Jahrhundert in Altgriechisch gesprochene Theaterstück in Zürich vorgetragen und Gessner spielte, als bei weitem jüngstes Mitglied der Gruppe, gleich zwei Rollen, was seine ausserordentlichen Griechischkenntnisse zeigt. Together they promoted a scholarship for him to study at Bourges and Paris. His use of woodcuts was significant in fixing the accuracy of his data and made possible the eventual emergence of a scientific At the same time, despite his many professional duties and recurring illnesses, he made field trips, started a museum, organized medical instruction, and published the 70 or so books that he had either written or edited.In an early work, a medical tract on the virtues of milk, Gesner’s next monumental achievement was a compendium of recorded knowledge concerning By the standards of his time Gesner as a scientist showed good judgment and industry.
März[1] 1516 in Zürich; 13.
Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle, who augmented his income by growing and collecting medicinal herbs.
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One acted as his foster father after his own father had been killed in 1531 during one of the many religious conflicts of the times; another fed and sheltered him for three years; and a third saw him through upper school at Strassburg.
Categories Dezember 1565 ebenda; oder Conrad Gesner, auch: Konrad Gessner, Konrad Geßner, Conrad Geßner, Conrad von Gesner, latinisiert Conradus Gesnerus, gräzisiert Thrasyboulos Gessneros[2]) war ein Schweizer Arzt, Naturforscher, Altphilologe, Humanist, Polyhistor und Enzyklopädist. Gesner spent the rest of his life practicing medicine in Zürich, serving also as a lecturer in Aristotelian physics at the Collegium Carolinum and, after 1554, as city physician.During these years in Zürich, he continued to read prodigiously.
Assistant to the President, University of California, Berkeley, 1936–66; Lecturer in Anthropology, 1940–66. Even when Gesner committed what his sponsors considered the fatal mistake at the age of 19 of marrying a young lady who had no dowry, his sponsors did not forsake him but rather found a teaching position for him in Zürich and then managed to persuade the authorities to grant him a leave of absence with pay so that he could undertake formal study of The first fruits of such faith was a Greek-Latin dictionary Gesner published in 1537, having prepared it in his spare time at Basel.
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