Johann Bauhin
Born12 December 1541
Old Swiss Confederacy
Died26 October 1613(1613-10-26) (aged 71)
Montbéliard, Kingdom of France
EducationUniversity of Basel (M.D., 1649)
Known forHistoria plantarum universalis
Parent
RelativesGaspard Bauhin (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Basel
ThesisSignorum medicorum doctrina annexa sphygmice, uromantia et crisium theoria, ex praecipuis Galen. et Hippocr. monumentis semeioticis excerpta (1649)
Doctoral advisorEmmanuel Stupanus
Other academic advisorsLeonhart Fuchs
Doctoral studentsNikolaus Eglinger

Johann (or Jean) Bauhin (12 December 1541 – 26 October 1613) was a Swiss botanist, born in Basel. He was the son of physician Jean Bauhin and the brother of physician and botanist Gaspard Bauhin.

Biography

Bauhin studied botany at the University of Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practice of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566. Four years later he was invited to become the physician to Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg at Montbéliard, in the Franche-Comté where he remained until his death. He devoted himself chiefly to botany. His great work, Historia plantarum universalis, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, remained incomplete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650–1651.[1]

Bauhin nurtured several botanic gardens and also collected plants during his travels. In 1591, he published a list of plants named after saints called De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus.

Johann Bauhin died in Montbéliard.

Carl Linnaeus named the genus Bauhinia (family Caesalpiniaceae) for the brothers Johann and Gaspard Bauhin.

Works

  • De plantis a divis sanctisve nomen habentibus, apud Conrad. Waldkirch, 1591.
  • Bauhin, Johann (1598). Historia novi et admirabilis fontis balneique Bollensis in ducatu Wirtembergico ad acidulas Goepingenses (in Latin). Montbéliard. Jacques Foillet.
  • Bauhin, Johann; Cherler, Johann Heinrich (1650). Historia plantarvm vniuersalis, nova, et absolvtissima: cvm consensv et dissensv circa eas. 3 vols (in Latin). Vol. 1. Yverdon.(available here at Biodiversity Library)

References

  1. ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bauhin, Gaspard s.v. Jean Bauhin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 539.
  2. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  J.Bauhin.


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