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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaspard Bauhin has received more than 140,620 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gaspard Bauhin is the 129th most popular biologist (down from 127th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 6th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 129 out of 1,097. Before him are Martinus Beijerinck, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Othenio Abel, Charles Scott Sherrington, August Grisebach, and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. After him are Erwin Neher, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Giovanni Sartori, Elias Magnus Fries, E. O. Wilson, and Bert Sakmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1560, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth Báthory, Annibale Carracci, Thomas Harriot, Jacobus Arminius, and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. After him are Thomas Cavendish, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Anton Praetorius, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1624, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 3. Before him are Jakob Böhme, and Ahmad Sirhindi. After him are Gevherhan Sultan, Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, Dirck van Baburen, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Ketevan the Martyr, Fukushima Masanori, Marco Antonio de Dominis, Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, and Juan de Mariana.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 105 out of 1,015. Before him are Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Albert Anker (1831), Henri Guisan (1874), and Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821). After him are Hannes Meyer (1889), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), and Jost Bürgi (1552).

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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 Louis Agassiz (1807). After him are Charles Bonnet (1720), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), and Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884).

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