Johannes Gessner

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Johann RuGdolf Daelliker: Portrait of Johannes Gessner (Zurich Central Library)

Johannes Gessner (also Gesner or Geßner , born March 18, 1709 in Zurich ; † May 6, 1790 ibid) was a Swiss naturalist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Gessner ".

Live and act

Johannes Gessner was born as the son of Esther (née Maag) by Hegi and the pastor at the church Zum Kreuz Christoph Ges (s) ner, who is descended from Conrad Gessner's cousin Hans. He founded the Physical Society in 1746 . In 1808 it changed its name to Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zurich and is still known by this name today. He was also a foreign member of numerous academies, including the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , the Prussian Academy of Sciences , the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg (since 1764). On September 4, 1746 Johannes Gessner with the academic surname Acarnan II was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 547 ) in the Leopoldina . Around 1760 he brought Johann Rudolph Schellenberg from Winterthur to Zurich so that he could illustrate natural history works with animal drawings.

literature

• Urs Boschung : Gessner, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Eduard Fueter junior :  Gessner, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 345 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg von Wyß:  Geßner, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 103-106.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johannes Gessner at the IPNI
• Correspondence between Johannes Gessner and Carl von Linné
• Member entry by Johann Gesner at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 31, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note: In some older sources March 28 is given as his birthday; it is definitely his baptism day.
2. ↑ Note: The brother of Hans Gessner, Heinrich, is an ancestor of Salomon Gessner .
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 91.
4. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 219 digitized