Willem Piso
1611
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1678
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Netherlands
languages spoken, written or signed: Latin
educated at: Leiden University
occupation: physician, botanist, biologist, ornithologist, naturalist, drawer, personal physician
Willem Piso (in Dutch Willem Pies, in Latin Gulielmus Piso, also called Guilherme Piso in Portuguese) (1611 in Leiden – 28 November 1678 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644, sponsored by count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and the Dutch West India Company. Piso became one of the founders of tropical medicine. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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