Andrés Laguna

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Andrés Laguna in an 18th century portrait

Andrés Laguna de Segovia (* 1499 in Segovia , † 1559 in Guadalajara (Spain) ) was a Spanish medic , pharmacist , botanist and humanist .

biography

Andrès Laguna was born as the son of the doctor Didacus Ferdinand a Lacuna from Segovia. He studied medicine and classical philology in Salamanca and Paris , where he was particularly influenced by the ideas of Erasmus von Rotterdam . After traveling to England , the Netherlands and Italy , where he was the personal physician of Pope Julius III. worked, he returned to Spain in 1557 and worked there as court physician to kings Charles V and Philip II .

Works

Epitomes omnium Galeni Pergameni operum , 1553
  • 1550: poor but healthy

Web links

Commons : Andrés Laguna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. See Andrea à Lacuna: Compendium curationis ... febris pestilentialis , Wendelin Rihel, Strasbourg 1542 ( Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital ).