#  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*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_-_Conradus_Gesnerus_Tigurinus_medicus_et_philosophiae_interpres_anno_aetatis_suae_XLVIII_anno_salutis_MDLXIIII_nonis_martis_-_000006653.jpg) (\[Switzerland\], 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.



 

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