Johannes Gessner (1709-1790)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/39336
- Name (English)
- Johannes Gessner
- Short name
- Johannes Gessner
- Year of birth
- 1709
- Year of death
- 1790
- Short Description
- "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 Zürich, where he trained under the physician Johannes von Muralt. He moved to Basel to study medicine, continuing his studies in 1726 and 1727 at the University of Leiden. There he became friendly with Albrecht von Haller, with whom he made a 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
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