Adriaan van de Spiegel

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Adriaan van den Spieghel.

Adriaan van de (n) Spiegel , also Adriaan van den Spieghel or Adrianus Spigeli (us) (* 1578 in Brussels , † April 7, 1625 in Padua ), was a Flemish anatomist , surgeon and botanist .

Live and act

Title page from De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Adriaan von den Spiegel was the son of a surgeon and first studied medicine in Leuven and Leiden. From the spring of 1601 he studied in Padua with Girolamo Fabrizio da Acquapendente and the anatomist and surgeon Julius Casserius (Giulio Casseri; 1552-1616). Around 1604 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1612 he left Italy and traveled through Belgium and Germany. Shortly afterwards he obtained the title of Medicus Primarius of Bohemia . On December 22nd, 1616 he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery to succeed Casserius in Padua.

His research concerned the blood vessel and nervous systems as well as the liver anatomy. The Spieghel hernia is named after him. He also worked on flatworms and roundworms.

Honor taxon

The genus Spigelia L. of the plant family of the nugget family (Loganiaceae) was named in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Isagoges in rem herbariam libri duo. Padua 1606.
  • De lumbrico lato liber . Padua 1618.
  • De semitertiana libri quatuor . Frankfurt 1624.
  • De formato foetu liber singularis . Padua 1626.
  • De humani corporis fabrica libri decem . Venice 1627.

Source and literature

  • Lexicon of natural scientists. Berlin 2004.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Spieghel [Spiegel, Spigelius, Spigeli], Adriaan van den. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1349.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Spieghel [Spiegel, Spigelius, Spigeli], Adriaan van den. 2005, p. 1349.
  2. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Casseri, Giulio. In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. 2005, p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Adriaan van de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiegel, Adriaan van den; Spieghel, Adriaan van den; Spigelius, Adrianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish anatomist, surgeon and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1625
Place of death Padua