10 Facts About Theodor Zwinger

Theodor Zwinger the Elder was a Swiss physician and Renaissance humanist scholar.

Theodor Zwinger made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature.

Theodor Zwinger was the first distinguished representative of a prominent Basel academic family.

Theodor Zwinger's mother was Christina Herbster, the sister of Johannes Oporinus the famed humanist printer.

Theodor Zwinger studied at the Universities of Basel, Lyon, and Paris before taking a doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua with Bassiano Landi, the successor of Johannes Baptista Montanus.

Theodor Zwinger joined the faculty of the University of Basel as a member of the consilium facultatis medicae from 1559.

Theodor Zwinger associated with Paracelsians such as Thomas Moffet, Petrus Severinus and Claude Aubery.

Theodor Zwinger was the editor of the early encyclopedia Theatrum Humanae Vitae.

Theodor Zwinger seemed to have a difficult to read handwriting and Casiodoro de Reyna once would have liked to travel from Frankfurt to Basel in order for Zwinger to read de Reyna his own letters.

Theodor Zwinger's descendant Theodor Zwinger the Younger was a prominent preacher and theology professor.