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Gesner, Konrad von
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Swiss scholar and naturalist, born at Zurich; hampered by ill-health and poverty in his youth, he yet contrived by unremitting diligence to obtain an excellent education at Strasburg, Bourges, and Paris; in his twenty-first year he obtained an appointment in Zurich University, and in 1537 became professor of Greek at Lausanne; abandoning the idea he entertained of entering the Church, he determined to adopt the medical profession instead, graduated at Basel in 1540, and a year later went to Zurich to occupy the chair of Natural History and to practise as a doctor; his chief works are the "Bibliotheca Universalis" (a catalogue and summary of all Hebrew, Greek, and Latin works then known to exist), and the "Historia Animalium"; these monuments of learning have won him the cognomen of the German Pliny (1516-1565).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gesner, Konrad von'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gesner-konrad-von.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
