The Polymath Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) as a Poet

This website is a non-profit project with the goal to provide information and resources on Conrad Gessner, the Zurich physician, natural philosopher, bibliographer, collector and polymath (1516-1565). We are focusing on exhibiting samples of his poems in Latin and Greek with new English translation that he published in books authored by his contemporaries. (Project start: October 2022)

Großhans Thomann and Ludwig Fryg, Conradus Gesnerus Tigurinus medicus et philosophiae interpres anno aetatis suae XLVIII anno salutis MDLXIIII nonis martis ([Switzerland], 1564). Courtesy of Zentralbibliothek Zürich, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The woodcut is made after Tobias Stimmer’s portrait of Conrad Gessner (1564), today in Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.