Gilles de Corbeil

Pierre -Gilles de Corbeil ( Latin: Egidius de Corbolio or Egidius or Giles Corboliensis; ; * about 1140 in Corbeil; † around 1224 ) was a French physician ( anatomist, Urologist ), teacher and poet of the Middle Ages. He authored four medical poems and anticlerical satire, all in Latin ( dactylic hexameter ).

Gilles de Corbeil is considered an important mediator Salernian knowledge to other European universities.

Life

Gilles de Corbeil learned the liberal arts in Paris in 1160 and went to Salerno, in order to study with the masters of the famous medical school. He then taught medicine at Montpellier and, since the end of the 12th century at the Paris School, which at that time was elevated to the rank of a university. In Paris, he also served as a canon at Notre -Dame de Paris Cathedral and the personal physician of the French king Philip II Augustus ( Both figures are not saved as scientific).

Works

From Gilles de Corbeil only medical works have survived and are all written in Latin Hexameterversen. This form was with the teachers at the Medical School of Salerno of the 12th and 13th centuries, a common method to facilitate the students receiving the knowledge. The best known works are

• De Pulsibus
• De Urinis

Gilles de Corbeil is not to be confused with his contemporary, the medieval poet Gilles de Paris.

The city of Corbeil -Essonne named her hospital in honor of Gilles de Corbeil.