Guillaume Rondelet

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Guillaume Rondelet
Guillaume Rondelet
Guillaume Rondelet
Born 27 September 1507
Died 30 July 1566
Nationality France
Fields medicine
Institutions University of Montpellier

Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), known also as Rondeletius, was professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France. Famed as a teacher, Rondelet was also the author of a book Libri de Piscibus Marinis on the natural history of fishes.

He may have been the model for Dr. Rondibilis in the Tiers livre of François Rabelais. He also taught the famous Nostradamus.

A genus of fish, and a plant genus are both named Rondeletia after Rondelet.