Gaspard Bauhin
Caspar ( Gaspard ) ileocecal ( born January 17, 1560 in Basel, † December 5, 1624 ) was a Swiss botanist and university professor of anatomy in Basel, has written numerous books and writings. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.Bauhin ". He is the father of Johann Caspar and brother of Johann Bauhin.
Life
Ileocecal came from the family physician ileocecal who had fled as Huguenots from Paris and Amsterdam to Basel; his father was Jean Bauhin. He studied medicine at the University of Basel, among others, Felix Platter. Further study sites were Padua, among others, Girolamo Mercuriale, Montpellier, Paris and Tübingen. At the University of Tübingen, he studied botany at Leonhart Fuchs. 1581 ileocecal received his doctorate in Basel for Dr. med.
From 1582 he was a teacher of Greek, from 1589 lecturer and first professor of anatomy and botany at the University of Basel, for which he established its botanical garden. 1614 he was appointed city physician and professor of practical medicine ( as successor to Felix Platter ) at the university. In the years 1592, 1611 and 1619 ileocecal was rector of the University of Basel.
He is the author of numerous publications anatomical content, in which he summarized his lectures and anatomical- pathological demonstrations, reproduced with meticulous and almost unbroken list of all body parts and physiological as well as pathological explanations added. He is still in medical circles as the " discoverer " or official describer of the ileocecal valve, a closure at the junction between the colon and small intestine, is known which is also referred to by him as the ileocecal valve.
With ileocecal who also knew the then known flora of the whole of Europe, came the period of the so-called "Fathers of Botany " (including Otto Brunfels, Hieronymus Bock, Leonhart Fuchs, Pietro Andrea Mattioli ) to conclude, both in terms of the naming (nomenclature ) as well as on the individual descriptions ( physiognomy ) and the arrangement of habitual similarities (classification).
He was the first by the distinction between species and genus completely and created a binary nomenclature. Ileocecal described approximately 5,640 plant species known at that time scarce diagnoses. In contrast with him are still missing the diagnoses of the genera. In the arrangement of the plants he placed great emphasis on the natural relationship.
Honors
Charles Plumier named him and his brother Johann ileocecal in honor of the genus Bauhinia of the plant family Fabaceae. Linnaeus later took the name.
Works
- Theatrum anatomicum. In 1605.
- Prodromos theatri botanici. 1620.
- Pinax theatri botanici. 1623rd