1516–1565 Swiss physician, naturalist and philologist whose publications were among the first to emphasize plant and animal structures as keys to classification and provide extensive bibliographies.
Keywords: natural history; medicine; philology
Gesner, Conrad (Konrad)
Robert L Martensen, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Published online: February 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002528
| Further Reading | |
| book Gesner C (1545) Bibliotheca universalis [contains autobiographical section]. | |
| book Gesner C (1551–1587) Historia animalium. | |
| Bay JC (1916) Conrad Gesner the father of bibliography. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 10(2): 53–85. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Fuchs L (1999) The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs (translated and annotated by Meyer FG, Trueblood EE, Heller JL). Stanford: Stanford University Press. | |
