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Conrad Gessner (26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Conrad Gessner was documented, and when
26 March 1516exact date
Zurichattested“Conrad Gessner was born on 26 March 1516, in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Ursus Gessner, a poor Zurich furrier.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
1536year
University of Baselattested“However, he then obtained a paid leave of absence to study medicine at the University of Basel (1536).”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
1541year
University of Montpellierattested“After three years of teaching at Lausanne, Gessner was able to travel to the medical school at the University of Montpellier, where he received his doctoral degree (1541) from Basel.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Lausanneattested“After three years of teaching at Lausanne, Gessner was able to travel to the medical school at the University of Montpellier, where he received his doctoral degree (1541) from Basel.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Baselattested“After three years of teaching at Lausanne, Gessner was able to travel to the medical school at the University of Montpellier, where he received his doctoral degree (1541) from Basel.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Zurichmentioned“One of his teachers in Zurich acted as a foster father to him after the death of his father at the Battle of Kappel (1531), another provided him with three years of board and lodging, while yet another arranged his further education at t…”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Strasbourgmentioned“One of his teachers in Zurich acted as a foster father to him after the death of his father at the Battle of Kappel (1531), another provided him with three years of board and lodging, while yet another arranged his further education at t…”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Zurichmentioned“In 1535, religious unrest drove him back to Zurich, where he made what some considered an imprudent marriage at the age of 19, of a woman from another poor family who had no dowry.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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University of Lausannementioned“In 1537, at the age of 21, his publication of a Graecolatin dictionary led to his sponsors obtained for him the professorship of Greek at the newly founded academy of Lausanne (then belonging to Bern).”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Bernmentioned“In 1537, at the age of 21, his publication of a Graecolatin dictionary led to his sponsors obtained for him the professorship of Greek at the newly founded academy of Lausanne (then belonging to Bern).”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
1555year
Gnepfsteinmentioned“In 1555 he issued his narrative Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati of his excursion to the Gnepfstein (1920 m), the lowest point in the Pilatus chain.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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Mount Pilatusmentioned“In 1555 he issued his narrative Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati of his excursion to the Gnepfstein (1920 m), the lowest point in the Pilatus chain.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
April 1559month
Augsburgmentioned“He first saw a tulip in April 1559, growing in the garden of the magistrate Johann Heinrich Herwart at Augsburg, and called it Tulipa turcarum, the Turkish tulip.”source: Wikipedia: Conrad Gessner
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