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Article: Gesner, Konrad
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Gesner, Konrad
(
b
. Zurich, Switzerland, 26 March 1516;
d
. Zurich, 13 March 1565)
natural sciences, medicine, philology
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The godson and prot
é
g
é
of the Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli, Gesner was destined from early childhood to study theology. He attended the Carolinum in his native Zurich and later entered the Fraum
ü
nster seminary. After the death of his godfather and protector in 1531 at the Battle of Kappel, Gesner left Zurich; the following year he was at the Strasbourg Academy, where he attended the courses
of Wolfgang Capito and soon became a Hebrew scholar. Theological studies no longer held much interest for him, however; and he turned to medicine, studying ...
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