Adriaan van den Spiegel

Adriaan van den Spiegel, also written Spieghel or in Latin Adrianus Spigelius, was a Flemish anatomist born in Brussels who lived from 1578 to 1625. For much of his career he practised medicine in Padua, where he studied anatomy under Girolamo Fabrici and is counted among the great physicians of the city. His best known anatomical work, De humani corporis fabrica libri X, was published after his death in 1627. In his 1624 treatise De semitertiana he gave the first comprehensive description of malaria. The Spigelian line, the Spigelian fascia, the Spigelian hernia and the caudate lobe of the liver, Spiegel's lobe, all carry his name, and the plant genus Spigelia honours his work as a botanist.