16th-century Belgian people

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: 16th-century Flemish physicians, Flemish Renaissance humanists, Flemish Renaissance painters, Simon Stevin, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Andreas Vesalius, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jodocus Badius, François Le Fort, Bernard van Orley, Adriaen Isenbrandt, Jan Mabuse, Lucas Horenbout, Hans Eworth, Justus Lipsius, Frans Floris, Otto van Veen, Rembert Dodoens, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, William de Croÿ, Jan van Scorel, Caterina van Hemessen, List of Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands, Anselmus de Boodt, Juan de Flandes, Jan Wellens de Cock, Henrich Smet, Justus van Gent, Antwerp school, Michiel Coxie, Jan Joest, Leonardus Lessius, Stradanus, Pieter van Aelst, Gerhard Dorn, Paul and Mattheus Brill, Jacob de Backer, Denis Calvaert, Willem Key, Brunswick Monogrammist, Lucas van Valckenborch, Herri met de Bles, Hieronimo Custodis, Joos van Cleve, Dominicus Lampsonius, Quentin Metsys the Younger, Bonaventura Vulcanius, Hendrick van Balen, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Charles III de Croÿ, Jacob van Utrecht, Antwerp Mannerism, Martin Van Cleve, Hans Bol, Adriaan van den Spiegel, Simon Bening, Denis van Alsloot, Petrus Vulcanius, Francisco Henriques, Mayken Verhulst, Marten de Vos, Cornelis van Dalem, Gillis Coignet, Crispin van den Broeck, Matthys Cock, Cornelius van Cleve, Marten van Valckenborch, Joos van Winghe, Jacob Grimmer, Lucas de Heere, Pieter Gillis, Lambert Lombard, Lodewijk Toeput, Louis Carrion, Cornelis Molenaer, Bernaert de Rijckere, Adriaen de Weerdt, Joachim Beuckelaer, Johannes Vasaeus, Frans Mostaert, Jan van Dornicke, Daniel Bomberg, Aert Mijtens, Valerio Profondavalle, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Hans Speckaert, Hendrick van den Broeck, Johannes Despauterius, Lucas Gassel, Pieter Pourbus, Pieter Balten, Jan de Beer, Lancelot Blondeel, Frans Pourbus the Elder, Christophe de Longueil, Jacobus Typotius, Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh, Gabriel Mudaeus, Domenicus Verwilt. Excerpt: Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 - 15 October 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. Vesalius is the Latinized form of Andries van Wesel. He is sometimes also referred to as Andreas Vesal, André Vesalio and Andre Vesale. Vesalius was born to Andries van Wesele and Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514, in Brussels, then in the Habsburg Netherlands, to a family of physicians. His great-grandfather, Jan van Wesel, probably born in Wesel, received his medical degree from the University of Pavia and taught medicine in 1528 at the then newly founded University of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V. Andries encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era. In 1528 Vesalius entered the University of Louvain (Pedagogium Castrense) taking arts, but when his father was appointed as the Valet de Chambre in 1532, he decided to pursue a career in medicine at the University of Paris, where he moved in 1533. Here he studied the theories of Galen under the auspices of Jacques Dubois (Jacobus Sylvius) and Jean Fernel. It was dur...