Gaspard Bauhin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss botanist
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1560
Place of Birth: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Date of Death: 05-Dec-1624
Profession: physician, university teacher, botanist, mycologist
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Gaspard Bauhin
- Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (Latin: Casparus Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Phytopinax (1596) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus.
- He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature. Linnaeus honored the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Jean in the genus name Bauhinia.
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