Jean Bauhin

See also: Bauhin

Jean Bauhin (or Johann Bauhin ) is the brother of Gaspard Bauhin. Naturalist of French origin , born with Basle the December 12th 1541 and died with Montbeliard the October 26th 1612, author of vast a Botanical Encyclopedia .

He was the son of a doctor, who was obliged to leave the France to have embraced the reformed Religion. He studies botany with Tübingen under the direction of Leonhart Fuchs and with Zurich under the direction of Conrad Gessner. Bauhin follows the courses of Ulisse Aldrovandi to Bologna and those of Guillaume Rondelet to Montpellier. Of passage to Lyon, it meets Jacques Daléchamps which helps it in its botanical research. But to escape religious persecutions, it must leave the France and takes refuge again in Suisse.

Jean Bauhin accompanies Conrad Gessner in his herborizings in Suisse before settling with Basle and exerting medicine there. He becomes professor of Rhétorique in 1566. Gessner holds it in very high regard.

In 1570, it is called at the court of the duke of Württemberg to Montbeliard where it remains as doctor until his death. It had the direction of the botanical garden, the Grands gardens , the third in Europe by seniority. It enriches it by exotic plants and of foreign flowers and the culture of the Potato develops to with it. It is there that it gathers the elements of two great works but which will appear only after its death.

In 1591, it publishes a notable Histoire of the rage of the wolves, occurred year MDXC, with the remedies for empescher the rage which occurs after the bite of the wolves, dogs and others bestes mad , in 1593, a Traité animauls without aisles, which harms by their piqueures or bites, with the remedies . In 1594, it publishes its correspondence with Gessner.

In 1601, with two colleagues, it published, in the name of the three, the History of the marvellous effects that a salubrious fountain, located at the village of Lougres, produced for the cure of several diseases in the year 1601 , examination of water of Lougres whose medicinal virtues were proven on several occasions.

In 1619, appears Historiæ plantarum generalis novæ and absolutæ Prodomus but its principal work is the Historia plantarum universalis , a compilation of all that was known of its time in botany, published but incomplete in 1650 - 1651 with Yverdon-the-Baths (3 folio volumes). Its Historiæ describes more 5 000 plants and comprises more 3 500 illustrations, the majority borrowed from Fuchs and made authority a long time.

With his/her brother, Gaspard, it publishes a curious Of plantis has divided sanctisque nomen habentibus devoted to the plants carrying of the names of Saint S.

Charles Plumier dedicated the to him kind Bauhinia of the family of the Légumineuse S. the name was then confirmed by Linné, thus entering the current scientific nomenclature under its authority.

A college bears its name to Audincourt (Doubs).

See too

Huguenots throughout the world

Random links: