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
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Ulisse Aldrovandi’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Scientists
- Piri Reis (Ahmed Muhiddin Piri)· 1465 CE–1553 CE
- Girolamo Fracastoro· 1478 CE–1553 CE
- Paracelsus· 1493 CE–1541 CE
- Jyeṣṭhadeva· 1500 CE–1575 CE
- Niccolò Tartaglia· 1500 CE–1557 CE
- Girolamo Cardano· 1501 CE–1576 CE
- Gemma Frisius· 1508 CE–1555 CE
- Gerardus Mercator· 1512 CE–1594 CE
- Georg Joachim Rheticus· 1514 CE–1574 CE
- Andreas Vesalius· 1514 CE–1564 CE
- Conrad Gessner· 1516 CE–1565 CE
- Li Shizhen· 1518 CE–1593 CE
- Rafael Bombelli· 1526 CE–1572 CE
- Abraham Ortelius· 1527 CE–1598 CE
- François Viète· 1540 CE–1603 CE
- Simon Stevin· 1548 CE–1620 CE
- John Napier· 1550 CE–1617 CE
- Francis Bacon· 1561 CE–1626 CE
- Henry Briggs· 1561 CE–1630 CE
- Xu Guangqi· 1562 CE–1633 CE
- Galileo Galilei· 1564 CE–1642 CE
- Johannes Kepler· 1571 CE–1630 CE
- William Harvey· 1578 CE–1657 CE
- Willebrord Snell· 1580 CE–1626 CE
Christian world
Hindu world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Buddhist world
Jewish world
Rulers world
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi· 1537 CE–1598 CE
- Elizabeth I· 1533 CE–1603 CE
- Maharana Pratap· 1540 CE–1597 CE
- Túpac Amaru· 1545 CE–1572 CE
- Oda Nobunaga· 1534 CE–1582 CE
- Ivan IV the Terrible· 1530 CE–1584 CE
- Murad III· 1546 CE–1595 CE
- Akbar the Great· 1542 CE–1605 CE
- Feodor I· 1557 CE–1598 CE
- Selim II· 1524 CE–1574 CE
- Bayinnaung· 1516 CE–1581 CE
- Boris Godunov· 1552 CE–1605 CE
- Tokugawa Ieyasu· 1543 CE–1616 CE
- Naresuan the Great· 1555 CE–1605 CE
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