Charles Estienne

Charles Estienne, known in Latin as Carolus Stephanus, was an early exponent of the science of anatomy in France in the sixteenth century. He was a younger brother of the famous printer Robert Estienne I and a son of Henri Estienne, who Latinized the family name as Stephanus. After the usual humanistic training he studied medicine and took his doctor's degree at Paris, and he was for a time tutor to the future poet Jean-Antoine de Baif. It is uncertain whether he taught publicly, and his career was interrupted by persecutions in which the family's religious opinions involved them. He did not share the servile imitation of Galenic anatomy found in his contemporary Jacques Dubois.