Bartolomeo Eustachi

Bartolomeo Eustachi, also known as Eustachio and by the Latin name Bartholomaeus Eustachius, was an Italian anatomist of the sixteenth century and one of the founders of human anatomy. Born in San Severino in the province of Ancona, he studied medicine in Rome and from 1549 was professor of anatomy at the Archiginnasio della Sapienza. His studies of the kidney, the ear, the teeth and the circulatory system were collected in the Opuscula Anatomica of 1564. The Eustachian tube of the ear and the Eustachian valve of the vena cava carry his name. His fine anatomical engravings, finished in 1552, were not printed until 1714.