Bartolomeo Eustachi

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Bartolomeo Eustachi
Tabulae anatomicae , 1769

Bartolomeo Eustachi , Latinized Bartolomaeus Eustachius (* between 1500 and 1520 in San Severino Marche , † August 27, 1574 in Fossombrone or on the Via Flaminia there - according to other sources in Rome) - was an Italian doctor and anatomist .

Eustachi lived in Rome from 1549 , where he was papal personal physician and taught at the Collegio della Sapienza, later the University of La Sapienza . He researched and described many structures in the human body, including a. the Eustachian tube , the kidneys , the uterus and - first in 1513 - the adrenal glands . In 1552, nine years after Vesalius , he wrote a textbook on anatomy, the Tabulae anatomicae . The book, which was not published until 1714 (the 47 plates were found with the heirs of the draftsman Pier Matteo Pini, who had made them for Eustachi), contained a remarkable collection of anatomical drawings and in some respects was more exact than the work of Vesalius. As can be seen from his description of tooth development published in 1550, Eustachi, in contrast to Vesalius, knew the function of the pulp cavity .

The Eustachian tube named after Eustachi may have been discovered about 2000 years earlier by the Greek natural philosopher Alkmaion , who is also said to have been a practicing doctor.

Fonts (incomplete)

  • Libellus de dentibus (1550)
  • Tabulae anatomicae (Rome 1714, Leiden 1744, Venice 1769)
  • Opuscula anatomica

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Brechner: Compact dictionary of biology. Spectrum, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 978-3-8274-1651-3 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Doctors lexicon from antiquity to the present. Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-29584-6 .
  3. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Eustachius, Bartolomaeus. 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. 382.
  4. ^ Erwin J. Hentschel , Günther H. Wagner : Dictionary of Zoology. 7th edition. Spectrum, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8274-1479-3 .
  5. ^ Otto Westphal , Theodor Wieland , Heinrich Huebschmann: life regulator. Of hormones, vitamins, ferments and other active ingredients. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1941 (= Frankfurter Bücher. Research and Life. Volume 1), pp. 17–19 ( The adrenal glands ).
  6. ↑ Ullrich Rainer Otte: Jakob Calmann Linderer (1771-1840). A pioneer in scientific dentistry. Medical dissertation, Würzburg 2002, p. 16 f.
personal data
SURNAME Eustachi, Bartolomeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physician and co-founder of the science of anatomy
DATE OF BIRTH between 1500 and 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH San Severino Marche
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1574
Place of death Fossombrone