Mondino dei Luzzi

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Mondino dei Luzzi and his assistant Alessandra Giliani
Statue in the Archiginnasio di Bologna

Mondino dei Luzzi or Mondino de Liucci (also Raimondino / Raimund , with spellings of the family name de 'Luzzi, Liuzzi, Lucci , Latin Mundinus de Leuciis ; * around 1275 in Bologna ; † 1326 ibid) was an Italian anatomist and professor of medicine in Bologna.

Mondino came from a Florentine patrician family, studied medicine at the University of Bologna under Taddeo Alderotti , received his doctorate around 1300 and taught until his death as a member of the medical faculty of Bologna. He also practiced as a doctor. He had been dissecting corpses in Bologna since 1306, and stood outside the scholastic way of thinking and the ancient authorities. He was the first to introduce systematic anatomy lessons with the regular inclusion of teaching sections (demonstrations on the opened corpse) into teaching, after this had been made compulsory in the school of Salerno , but was not and probably only practiced at the western universities had been carried out again by Alderotti at least occasionally.

Mondino published in 1316 with his work Anathomia (a collection of practical dissection exercises), which was first printed in 1475 in Padua under the title Anathomia Mundini (with numerous new editions and reprints), which was the first medieval anatomical textbook of this kind designed “according to reality” was and remained the authoritative textbook in this field until the time of the Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564). It is in the Salernitan tradition and only occasionally goes beyond this based on our own observations. Despite the empirical approach, its importance lies less in the expansion of content than in the standardization and authoritative fixation of anatomical school knowledge. Mondino also wrote writings on medication ( De ponderibus , De dosibus medicinae ), consultations in the tradition of Alderotti and commentaries on Galen , Hippocrates and the aphorisms of Yuhanna ibn Masawaih .

Alessandra Giliani and Otto Angenius were named as his students in the 19th century .

Modern editions

  • Lino Sighinolfi (Ed.): Anatomia, riprodotta da un codice Bolognese del secolo XIV e volgarizzata nel secolo XV. Capelli, Bologna 1930 (= Classici italiani della medicina, 1)
  • Ernest Wickersheimer (ed.): Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Droz, Paris 1926 (with facsimile impression of the Pavia 1478 edition)

literature

Anathomia , 1541

Web links

Commons : Mondino dei Luzzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 253.
personal data
SURNAME Mondino dei Luzzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De 'Luzzi, Raimondino; Liuzzi, Raimondino; Lucci, Raimondino; Liucci, Raimondino; Mundinus de Leuciis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1275
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH 1326
Place of death Bologna