Johann Bauhin

RelativesGaspard Bauhin (brother)Scientific careerFieldsBotanyInstitutionsUniversity of BaselThesisSignorum medicorum doctrina annexa sphygmice, uromantia et crisium theoria, ex praecipuis Galen. et Hippocr. monumentis semeioticis excerpta (1649)Doctoral advisorEmmanuel StupanusOther academic advisorsLeonhart FuchsDoctoral studentsNikolaus Eglinger

Johann (or Jean) Bauhin (12 December 1541 – 26 October 1613) was a Swiss botanist, born in Basel. He was the son of physician Jean Bauhin and the brother of physician and botanist Gaspard Bauhin.

Biography

Bauhin studied botany at the University of Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practice of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566. Four years later he was invited to become the physician to Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg at Montbéliard, in the Franche-Comté where he remained until his death. He devoted himself chiefly to botany. His great work, Historia plantarum universalis, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, remained incomplete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650–1651.^[1]

Bauhin nurtured several botanic gardens and also collected plants during his travels. In 1591, he published a list of plants named after saints called De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus.

Johann Bauhin died in Montbéliard.

Carl Linnaeus named the genus Bauhinia (family Caesalpiniaceae) for the brothers Johann and Gaspard Bauhin.

Works

• De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus, apud Conrad. Waldkirch, 1591.
• Bauhin, Johann (1598). Historia novi et admirabilis fontis balneique Bollensis in ducatu Wirtembergico ad acidulas Goepingenses (in Latin). Montbéliard. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
• Bauhin, Johann; Cherler, Johann Heinrich (1650). Historia plantarvm vniuersalis, nova, et absolvtissima: cvm consensv et dissensv circa eas. 3 vols (in Latin). Vol. 1. Yverdon.(available here at Biodiversity Library)
  • Historia plantarum universalis (in Latin). Vol. 2. Yverdon. 1651.
  • Historia plantarum universalis (in Latin). Vol. 3. Yverdon. 1651.

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  Historia plantarum universalis, 1650

References

External links

• Johann Bauhin info from the Hauck Botanical online exhibit Archived 2012-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries – High-resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Johann Bauhin in .jpg and .tiff format.
• Historia at Edward Worth library
• Johann Bauhin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project