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Conrad Gessner


 

Conrad Gessner (Konrad Gessner, Conrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus) (26 March 1516-13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist. His three-volume Historia Animalium (1555-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the plant family Gesneriaceae is named after him.

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

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