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Title: Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: McCrie, Charles Greig, 1836-1910 Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605
Subjects: Reformation Reformers Reformers
Publisher: London Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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^i?> Conrad Gesner (Conradus Gesnerus) TO Sebastian Miinster, as we have stated, hiscountrymen gave the name of the GermanStrabo; Conrad Gesner they surnamed theGerman Pliny. This naturalist was bornat Zurich, March 26, 15 16. His parentswere poor, and he was indebted to a maternal unclefor his education. Studying the plants in this rela-tives garden gave his mind a bent in the direction ofphysical science, which it retained through after-life.With the assistance of his uncle, Conrad studiedsuccessively at Strasburg, Bourges, and Paris, andtook the degree of M.D. at Basle. On returning toZurich in 1535, he married. The prudence of sucha step was in this case open to question, in view ofthe facts that he held no official appointment, and onlymaintained himself and his wife by private teaching.It was needful for him to occupy the entire day in 134
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CONRAD GESNER. Conrad Gesner tutoring ; but the night was his own, and so large aportion of it was given up to study that in course oftime he became known as literarium miraculum—aliterary prodigy. In 1537 Gesner received the appointment ofProfessor of Greek at Lausanne, and four years laterhe returned to his native town to take up the work ofthe chair of Physics and Natural History. In neitherof these places were the emoluments large, and theProfessor was obliged to add to his labours those ofauthorship. Under the strain of intense devotion toscientific and literary pursuits his health, at no timerobust, completely broke down. When death wasimminent he desired to be carried into the museumhe had formed, that he might spend the last momentsof life among his treasures. He died of plague onDecember 13, 1565. He was tenderly nursed byhis wife and expired in her arms. Gesner was the greatest naturalist since Aristotle.His first and favourite study was botany. Heformed a natural history

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