Pierre Belon
1517
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1564
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
educated at: University of Halle-Wittenberg
occupation: naturalist, writer, zoologist, physician, botanist, diplomat, ornithologist, ichthyologist, historian
Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (known for Pavlov's dogs) called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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