Conrad Gesner
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Scientists, Natural History
- Curriculum: Renaissance History
Article abstract: Gesner was a Renaissance man, who collected, studied, and published the works of earlier literary, medical, and natural history authorities; he also compiled encyclopedic surveys of earlier scholarship in these fields. Equally as important, however, was Gesner’s extension of knowledge, particularly in the fields of philology and natural history.
Early Life
Conrad Gesner was one of many children of Ursus Gesner, a Zurich furrier, and Agathe Frick. His family formed an undistinguished branch of a Swiss family that would become famous...
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