Conrad von Gesner (Konrad von Gesner, Conrad Gessner, Conradus Gesnerus) ( March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). There are 280 days remaining. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru 1636 - Utrecht University is founded in The... 26 March Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. August 13 - Treaty of Noyon - Peace between France and Spain. Francis recognizes Charles... 1516- December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 18 days remaining. Events 1545 - Council of Trent begins 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, on his round-the-world voyage 1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand 1643... 13 December Events March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. August 28 - United States. September 8 - The Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18). Miguel López de Legaspi founds San Miguel, the... 1565) was a The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international co-operation, and is home to many international organisations. Confoederatio Helvetica (CH), the Latin version... Swiss naturalist. His three-volume Historia Animalium (1555-1558) is considered the beginning of modern Zoology (Greek History of zoology (before Darwin), History of zoology (since Darwin) Branches of biology relevant to zoology The original branches of zoology established in the late 19th century such as zoo-physics, bionomics and morphography, have largely been subsumed into more broad areas of biology which include studies of... zoology, and the plant family Gesneriaceae is a flowering plant family consisting of c. 146 genera and c. 2400 species, mostly in the Old World tropics but also many in the New World tropics as well with a few extending to temperate areas. Most species are herbs or subshrubs, a few are trees. The most... Gesneriaceae is named after him.

Born and educated in Zürich IPA (in English often Zurich, which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 364,558 in 2002; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerlands... Zürich, he was the son of a furrier. After the death of his father at the Battle of Kappel ( Events January 26 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake-- thousands die October 1 - Battle of Kappel - The forces of Zürich are defeated by the Catholic cantons. Huldreich Zwingli, the Swiss religious reformer, is killed. Our Lady of Guadeloupe: The Virgin Mary appears to Aztec convert Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin... 1531), he was very short of money. He had good friends, however, in his old master, Oswald Myconius, and subsequently in Heinrich Bullinger Heinrich Bullinger (July 18, 1504 - September 17, 1575) was a Swiss religious reformer. The son of Dean Heinrich Bullinger by his wife Anna (Wiederkehr), he was born at Bremgarten, Aargau. He studied at Emmerich and Cologne, where the teaching of Peter Lombard led him, through Augustine of Hippo... Heinrich Bullinger, and he was enabled to continue his studies at the universities of The University Palace in Strasbourg, and a monument to one of the universitys students, Johann Wolfgang Goethe The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is divided into three separate institutions. They are (with approximate specialisations in parentheses): Strasbourg I - Université Louis Pasteur (science/technology) Strasbourg II - Université Marc... Strassburg and Bourges (1532-1533); in Paris, he found a generous patron in the person of Job Steiger of The city of Bern, English traditionally Berne [bɝːn] (German , a secret language used in the former workers quarter in German) he had killed. It was made a free imperial city by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1218 after Berthold died without an heir. In 1353... Berne.

In Events January 18 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro June 24 - The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded. May 19 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnaconas 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped... 1535, religious unrest drove him back to Zürich, where he made an imprudent marriage. His friends again came to his aid, enabled him to study at Basel (English traditionally: Basle [ba:l], German: Basel [ba:z@l], French Bâle [ba:l], Italian Basilea [bazilE:a]) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the... Basel (1536), and in 1537 obtained for him the professorship of The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. Ancient Greek in its various forms was the language both of classical Greek civilisation and of the origins of Christianity, and... Greek at the newly founded academy of Waterfront view of Ouchy, just south of Lausanne Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: at the site of a Celtic settlement. The city which grew from the camp was ruled by the Dukes of Savoy and the Bishop... Lausanne (then belonging to Berne). Here he had leisure to devote himself to scientific studies, especially Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and evolution of plants. Nearly all the food... botany. In 1540-1541 he visited the famous medical university of Location within France Montpellier ( Occitan , as well as the ) had a population of 459,916 inhabitants in 1999. As of February 2004 estimates, the population of the city of Montpellier reached 244,700 inhabitants, meaning a record 1.7% population growth per year between 1999 and 2004. Geography and economy... Montpellier, took his degree of doctor of medicine (1541) at Basel, and then settled down to practise at Zürich, where he obtained the post of lecturer in physics at the Carolinum. There, apart from a few journeys to foreign countries, and annual summer botanical journeys in his native land, he passed the remainder of his life. He devoted himself to preparing works on many subjects of different sorts. He died of the Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that is believed to have caused several epidemics or pandemics throughout history. Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague which is characterized by swollen, tender inflamed lymph glands (called buboes); other forms are Septicemic plague which occurs when plague bacteria multiply in... plague, the year after his ennoblement.

To his contemporaries he was best known as a botanist, though his botanical manuscripts were not published till long after his death (at Nuremberg coat of arms Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz river and the (Rhine-)Main-Danube Canal. Population (as of 07/2004): 494,933. It is known as the location... Nuremberg, 1751-1771, 2 vols. folio), he himself issuing only the Enchiridion historiae plantarum (iszli) and the Catalogus plantarum (1542) in four tongues. In 1545 he published his remarkable Bibliotheca universalis (ed. by J Simler, 1574), supposedly a catalogue (in Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. It is said... Latin, Greek and Hebrew) of all writers who had ever lived, with the titles of their works, etc. A second part, Pandeclarium sive partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri Ligurini libri xxi., appeared in 1548; only nineteen books being then concluded. The last, a theological encyclopaedia, was published in 1549, but the last but one, intended to include his medical work, was never finished.

His great zoological work, Historia animalium, appeared in 4 vols. (quadrupeds, birds, fishes) folio, 1551-1558, at Zürich, a fifth (snakes) being issued in 1587 (there is a German translation, entitled Thierbuch, of the first 4 vols., Zürich, 1563): this work is the starting-point of modern zoology. Not content with such vast works, Gesner put forth in 1555 his book entitled Mithridates de differentis linguis, an account of about 130 known languages, with the The Lords Prayer (sometimes known by its first two Latin words as the Pater Noster, in Greek as the , or the English equivalent Our Father) is probably the best-known prayer in the Christian religion. According to the New Testament, the prayer was given by Jesus of Nazareth as... Lord's Prayer in 22 tongues, while in 1556 appeared his edition of the works of The name Aelian may refer to one of two people: Aelianus Tacticus, a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, who lived in Rome Claudius Aelianus, a Roman teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek Categories: Disambiguation ... Aelian.

To non-scientific readers, Gesner is best known for his love of mountains (below the snow-line) and for his many excursions among them, undertaken partly as a botanist, but also for the sake of exercise and enjoyment of the beauties of nature. In 1541 he prefixed to his Libellus de lacte et operibus lactariis a letter addressed to his friend, J Vogel, of Glarus, as to the wonders to be found among the mountains, declaring his love for them, and his firm resolve to climb at least one mountain every year, not only to collect flowers, but in order to exercise his body. In Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Finland May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. September 25 - Peace of Augsburg is signed. Births Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer April 19 - Lodovico Carracci (Ludovico), Italian painter Deaths February 8 - Laurence Saunders martyred. March 23 - Pope Julius III May 6 - Pope Marcellus II... 1555 Gesner issued his narrative (Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati) of his excursion to the Gnepfstein (1920 m), the lowest point in the Pilatus chain.

Biographies were written by J Hanhari (Winterthur, 1824) and J Simler (Zürich, 1566).

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