Conrad Gessner
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Born: 26 March 1516 Died: 13 December 1565
Country of origin: Switzerland
Relationship Status: Married
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Conrad Gessner (also Konrad Gesner, Conrad Geรner, Conrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus, Conrad Gesner; 26 March 1516 โ 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. He was well known as a botanist, physician and classical linguist. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551โ1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria and its family Gesneriaceae are named after him. A genus of moths is also named Gesneria after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Gesner when citing a botanical name.[
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