Johann (or Jean) Bauhin (12 December 1541 – 26 October 1613) was a

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botanist, born in

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. He was the son of

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Jean Bauhin Jean Bauhin (24 August 1511 – 23 January 1582) was a French physician. He was born in Amiens, France and died in Basel, Switzerland, where he had to relocate after converting to Protestantism. He was the physician to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen ...

and the brother of

and botanist

Gaspard Bauhin Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin ( la, Casparus Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose '' Pinax theatri botanici'' (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons t ...

Biography

Bauhin studied

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at the

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under

Leonhart Fuchs Leonhart Fuchs (; 17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as ''Leonhartus Fuchsius'', was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and th ...

(1501–1566). He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practice of medicine at

, where he was elected Professor of

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in 1566. Four years later he was invited to become the physician to Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg at

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, in the

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where he remained until his death. He devoted himself chiefly to botany. His great work, ''Historia plantarum universalis'', a compilation of all that was then known about botany, remained incomplete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650–1651. Bauhin nurtured several botanic gardens and also collected plants during his travels. In 1591, he published a list of plants named after saints called ''De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus''. Johann Bauhin died in

. Carl Linnaeus named the genus '' Bauhinia'' (family Caesalpiniaceae) for the brothers Johann and

Works

*''De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus'', apud Conrad. Waldkirch, 1591. * * ** ** Bauhin, Johann – Historia plantarum universalis, 1650 – BEIC 6657321.jpg, ''Historia plantarum universalis'', 1650

References

External links

Johann Bauhin info from the Hauck Botanical online exhibit

Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries
– High-resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Johann Bauhin in .jpg and .tiff format.
Historia at Edward Worth library
* 1541 births 1613 deaths Scientists from Basel-Stadt 16th-century Swiss botanists 16th-century Swiss physicians 17th-century Swiss physicians 17th-century Swiss botanists Swiss mycologists {{Switzerland-botanist-stub