BAUHIN, GASPARD (156o-1624), Swiss botanist and anatomist, was the son of a French physician, Jean Bauhin (15 I I 1582), a Protestant exile in Switzerland. He was born at Basle on Jan. 7, 156o, and studied medicine at Padua, Montpelier, and some of the celebrated schools in Germany. In 1582 he was ap pointed to the Greek professorship at Basle, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany. He was afterwards made city physician, professor of the practice of medicine, rector of the university, and dean of his faculty. He died at Basle on Dec. 5, 1624. His most important botanical work was his Pinax Theatri Botanici, seu Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinii, et botani corum qui a seculo scripserunt opera (1596). He planned a Theatrurn Botanicum, meant to be comprised in 12 parts folio, of which he finished three; only one, however, was published (1658).
His son JEAN GASPARD BAUHIN (1606-1685);was professor of botany at Basle for 3o years. His elder brother, JEAN BAUHIN (1541-1613), after studying botany at Tubingen under Leonard Fuchs (15o1—I 566), and travelling with Conrad Gesner, began to practise medicine at Basle, where he was elected professor of rhetoric in 1766. His great work, Historia plantarum nova et absolutissima, a compilation of all that was then known about botany, was not complete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650-51, the Prodromus having appeared at the same place in 1619. He also wrote a book De aquis medicates which was published in 1605.