Guillaume Rondelet

Guillaume Rondelet, also called Rondeletius, was a French physician of the sixteenth century who became Regius professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier and its chancellor from 1556 until his death in 1566. Born in Montpellier in 1507, he studied in Paris and returned to complete his doctorate, and he served the Cardinal de Tournon as personal physician. He gained renown as an anatomist and as a naturalist with a special interest in botany and fishes, and his treatise on marine animals remained a standard reference for about a century. His lasting influence lay in teaching a group of pupils who became leading scientists of the late sixteenth century.