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Gaspard Bauhin

1560 - 1624

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Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (Latin: 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 to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature. Bauhin described the ileocecal valve in 1588—hence the name Bauhin's Valve or Valve of Bauhin—in the preface of his first writing, De corporis humani partibus externis tractatus, hactenus non editus. Linnaeus honored the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Jean in the genus name Bauhinia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaspard Bauhin is the 136th most popular biologist (down from 129th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 106th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 136 out of 1,097. Before him are Reginald Innes Pocock, Sydney Brenner, John Franklin Enders, Jan Swammerdam, William Jackson Hooker, and Lynn Margulis. After him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, Gerald Edelman, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and Edward B. Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1560, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 5. Before him are Elizabeth Báthory, Annibale Carracci, Thomas Harriot, and Jacobus Arminius. After him are Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Thomas Cavendish, Anton Praetorius, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1624, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 2. Before him is Jakob Böhme. After him are Gevherhan Sultan, Dirck van Baburen, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Fukushima Masanori, Ketevan the Martyr, Marco Antonio de Dominis, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and Juan de Mariana.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 87 out of 1,015. Before him are Niklaus Wirth (1934), Mario Botta (1943), H. R. Giger (1940), Carl Nägeli (1817), Margareta of Romania (1949), and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944). After him are Ernest Bloch (1880), Alfred Cortot (1877), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Albrecht von Haller (1708), and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 6. Before him are Conrad Gessner (1516), Daniel Bovet (1907), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Werner Arber (1929), and Carl Nägeli (1817). After him are Louis Agassiz (1807), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Charles Bonnet (1720), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Albert von Kölliker (1817), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818).

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