ABSTRACT
EMERSON T.MCMULLEN See also Anatomy; Harvey, William; Malpighi, Marcello; Vesalius, Andreas
Born in Mechelen, Belgium, he read medicine at the University of Louvain, from which he graduated in 1535. After traveling about France, Italy, and Germany for a decade, he returned to his native city, where he lived until 1574, the year he was appointed physician to Emperor Rudolph II. He was in Vienna at the same time as Charles de l’Écluse (Clusius, 1526-1609), already a friend of his because they both belonged to the group of scientists and intellectuals that held its meetings at the home of the famous typographer of Antwerp Cristophe Plantin (d. 1589). Later he lived in Cologne and Antwerp, and in 1582 he moved to the University of Leiden, where he taught general therapeutics and pathology.
