Johannes Gessner
Johannes Gessner (18 March 1709 – 6 May 1790) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, botanist, mineralogist and physician. He is seen as the founder of the "Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich".
Gessner was born and died in
grand tour to Paris to finish their medical studies. There he wrote his diary, later published as Pariser Tagebuch. The two friends in 1728 studied mathematics under Johann Bernoulli
and travelled through Switzerland.
Gessner became a doctor in
Johann Heinrich Rahn and Johann Georg Sulzer
.
Gessner produced publications on Swiss flora, and, as a follower of Carl Linnaeus, conceived the idea of creating illustrations which portrayed the Linnaean plant families. With the help of the painter and engraver Christian Gottlieb Geissler, he produced the 24-part Tabulae Phytographicae, which first appeared in 1795.[1]
Works
Scientific:
- Phytographia sacra, 1759–69
- Tabulae phytographicae, 1795–1804
Literary:
- Pariser Tagebuch, 1727.
References
- ^ Plant (Phaidon Press 2016 - Victoria Clarke et al.)
- Georg von Wyß (1879), "Geßner, Johannes", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 103–106
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