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Realdo Colombo

Italian anatomy professor and surgery

Matteo Realdo Colombo (c. 1515 – 1559) was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559.

Early life and education

Matteo Realdo Colombo or Realdus Columbus, was born in Cremona, Lombardy, the son of an apothecary named Antonio Colombo. Although little is known about his early life, it is known he took his undergraduate education in Milan, where he studied philosophy,[1] and he appears to have pursued his father's profession for a short while afterwards.

He left the apothecary's life and apprenticed to the surgeon Giovanni Antonio Lonigo, under whom he studied for 7 years. In 1538 he enrolled in the University of Padua where he was noted to be an exceptional student of anatomy.

Matteo Realdo Colombo was an Italian anatomist and surgeon who anticipated the English anatomist William Harvey, the discoverer of general.

  • Matteo Realdo Colombo was an Italian anatomist and surgeon who anticipated the English anatomist William Harvey, the discoverer of general.
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  • Matteo Realdo Colombo (c.
  • Colombo was the first anatomist with a relatively sure grip of the normal aspects of his subject to give distinctly separate consideration to its abnormal.
  • Realdo Colombo, the son of an apothecary, was born in Cremona, near Milan, Italy in 1515 or 1516 [2,3].

    • While still a student, he was awarded a Chair of Sophistics at the university. In 1542 he returned briefly to Venice to assist his mentor, Lonigo.

    Academic career

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