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Gaspard Bauhin introduced binomial nomenclature into taxonomy, which was much later taken up by Linnaeus. Bauhin's work, Pinax theatri botanici (1596), was the first to use this convention for naming of species. He also worked on human anatomical nomenclature.

Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism. Gaspard was born at Basel and studied medicine at Paduatempera, Two Christians before the Judges hangs in the city's cathedral. The city of Padua (Lat. Patavium It. Padova is the economic and communications hub of the Veneto region in northern Italy. The capital of Padova province, it stands on the Bacchiglio, MontpellierMontpellier ( Occitan Montpelhier is a city in the south of France. It is the prefecture (administrative capital) of the Herault departement''. Its population in 1999 was 225,392, while the surrounding metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine had a popu, and in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east. Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of doctor, and gave private lectures in botanyBotany is the scientific study of plants. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s or plant biology . Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, dis and anatomy. In 1582 he was appointed to the Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany. He was later made city physician, professor of the practice of medicine, rector of the university, and dean of his faculty.

In addition to Pinax Theatri Botanici, Gaspard planned another work, a Theatrum Botanicum, meant to be comprised in twelve parts folio, of which he finished three; only one, however, was published (1658). He also gave a copious catalogue of the plants growing in the environs of Basel, and edited the works of Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-1577) with considerable additions. His principal work on anatomy was Theatrum Anatomicum infinitis locis auctum (1592).

His brother, Jean Bauhin, studied botany at TübingenTubingen an old university city on the River Neckar in Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany, near Stuttgart, functions as the seat of the Administrative District of Tubingen, as well as of the county of Tubingen. In 2002 the city had 82,885 inhabitants, including under Leonhart FuchsLeonhart Fuchs ( 17 January 1501 10 May 1566) was a medic and a botanist. Biography Fuchs was born in Wemding in the Duchy of Bavaria (today in Baden-Wurttemberg). After visiting a school in Heilbronn, Fuchs went to the Marienschule in Erfurt, Thuringia a (1501-1566). He then travelled with Conrad GessnerConrad Gessner (Konrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus) ( 26 March 1516- 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist. His three-volume Historia Animalium (1555-1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the tropical herb and shrub family Gesneria, after which he started a practise of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566. Four years later he was invited to become physician to Duke Frederick I of WürttembergWurttemberg (often spelled Wurttemberg in English) refers to an area and a former state in Swabia, a region in south-western Germany. Its capital for the by far longest period was Stuttgart. For short periods of time, the seat of the government resp. at Montbéliard, where he remained until his death. He devoted himself chiefly to botany. His great work, Historia plantarum universalis, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, was incomplete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650-1651.

The genus of plants bauhinia was named after the brothers.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica