Galeazzo di Santa Sofia
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Galeazzo di Santa Sofia (d. 1427) was an Italian physician and anatomist.
Life[]
He taught medicine at the universities in Bologna and Padua. He was called to Vienna where he introduced anatomy as a subject of study and in 1404 made the first dissection north of the Alps.[1]
References[]
- ^ Wolfgang Regal; Michael Nanut (December 13, 2007). Vienna – A Doctor’s Guide: 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 7. ISBN 978-3-211-48952-9.
Bibliography[]
- Galeazzo Santa Sofia (1533). Opus medicinae practicae saluberrimum, antehac nusquam impressum, Galeatij de Sancta Sophia in nonum tractatum libri Rhasis ad regem Almansorem. Haguenau: Valentin Kobian.
Categories:
- Italian anatomists
- 15th-century Italian physicians
- 1427 deaths
- 14th-century Italian physicians