Ulisse Aldrovandi
1522 CE–1605 CE · Bologna
Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi.
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BolognaItaly
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About Bologna
Bologna, a city in north-central Italy, had a medieval and Renaissance Jewish community and was an early center of Hebrew printing. The biblical commentator and physician Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno (c. 1475-1550), author of a widely studied commentary on the Torah, lived and taught in Bologna.
In Bologna at the same time
Nicolaus Copernicus, Girolamo Cardano, Bonaventura Cavalieri
Across the traditions, in Bologna at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Ulisse Aldrovandi’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Pope Adrian VI· Rome
- Pope Paul III· Rome
- Sforno· Bologna
- Pope Paul IV· Rome
- Pope Clement VII· Rome
- Maharam of Padua· Padua
- David HaReuveni· Rome
- Ignatius of Loyola· Rome
- Pope Pius IV· Rome
- Shlomo Molcho· Rome
- Pope Marcellus II· Rome
- Pope Gregory XIII· Rome
- Pope St. Pius V· Rome
- Francis Xavier· Rome
- Pope Innocent IX· Rome
- Shmuel Yehuda Katzenellenbogen· Padua
- Pope Urban VII· Rome
- Pope Sixtus V· Rome
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