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Bauhin, Gaspard
- 1. Dates
- Born: Basel, Switzerland, 17 Jan 1560
- Died: Basel, Switzerland, 5 Dec 1624
- Dateinfo: Dates Certain
- Lifespan: 64
- 2. Father
- Occupation: Physician
- I assume prosperous.
- 3. Nationality
- Birth: Swiss
- Career: Swiss
- Death: Swiss
- 4. Education
- Schooling: Basel, M.D.
- Secondary: taught by his father and brother Jean, but also attended gymnasium of Thomas Platter.
- University: 1572, entered University of Basel; 1575, bachelor of Philosophy; 1577, first medical disputation.
- 1577 (Oct) -- early 1581, studied under various people in Italy, France, and Germany.
- 1581 (early), returned to Basel. 1581 (2 May), MD.
- 5. Religion
- Affiliation: Calvinist
- French Protestant. His father was a Huguenot refugee from France. 6. Discipline: anatomy, and botany.
- 6. Scientific Disciplines
- Primary: None
- 7. Means of Support
- Primary: Academic Position And Medical Practice
- Secondary: Patronage, Government
- 1581 (27 Feb), held first public anatomy at U. of Basel.
- 1581 (13 May), made member of Faculty of medicine.
- 1582 (April), made professor of Greek (continued teaching anatomy and botany).
- 1584, became consiliarius of Faculty of Medicine (held office until death).
- 1586, first of 8 times as dean of faculty.
- 1592, rector of university.
- 1589, special chair in anatomy and botany created for him.
- 1580's, growing private medical practice.
- 1597 (6?), along with brother Jean, is physician to Duke Frederick of Wuerttemberg.
- 1598, rector of university.
- 1611, rector of university.
- 1614, became archiater to the city of Basel.
- 1614, appointed professor of practice of medicine.
- 1619, rector of university.
- 8. Patronage
- Type: Court & Aristocracy
- Co-physician to Duke Frederick of Wuerttemberg (his father, son, and grandson were also physicians in various courts).
- His books dedicated to various barons.
- 9. Technological Involvement
- Type: Medical Practice
- 10. Scientific Societies
- Memberships: None
- Wide ranging correspondence to collect botanical information.
- No formal societies.
- Sources
- C. Jessen, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Band II, (Leipzig 1876), S. 151-2 -- (ref room) L. Legré, La botanique en Provence au XVIe siecle. Les Deux Bauhin, Jean Henri Cherler et Valerand Dourez, (Marseille, 1904).
- Not Available and Not Consulted
- Albrecht Burckhardt, Geschichte der Medizinischen Fakultaet zu Basel 1460 - 1900, (Basel, 1917), pp. 95 -123.
- J. von Hess, Bauhins Leben, (Basel, 1860).
- Compiled by:
- Richard S. Westfall
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Indiana University
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