Biologist

Gaspard Bauhin

Swiss botanist

1560 - 1624

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His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Gaspard Bauhin is the 135th most popular biologist (down from 129th in 2024), the 86th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 105th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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More than 4 centuries after death, Gaspard Bauhin still holds rank #10,266 among all individuals in Pantheon.

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Gaspard Bauhin shares a January 17 birthday with Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin, and Pope Pius V.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, Gaspard Bauhin ranks 135 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 Severyn Nalyvaiko. 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 86 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).

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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