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Italian anatomy professor and surgery

Matteo Realdo Colombo (c.

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

Colombo's anatomical text consisted of 15 different books, each of which covered information concerning a different part of the body.

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Matteo Realdo Colombo was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between and

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 (c.

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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