Mondino de Liuzzi

Mondino dei Luzzi (also Raimondino, with spellings of the family name de ' Luzzi, Liuzzi, Lucci, Liucci, lat Mundinus de Leuciis; * in 1275 in Bologna, † 1326 ibid ) was an anatomist and professor of medicine in Bologna.

Mondino studied medicine at the University of Bologna under Taddeo Alderotti, received his doctorate in 1300 and taught until his death as a member of the medical faculty of Bologna. He also practiced as a doctor. He was the first to introduce the systematic anatomy lessons with regular inclusion of teaching sections ( demonstrations at the open body ) in the teaching after they were provided for in the school of Salerno as mandatory, but has not been practiced in the Western universities, and probably only had been carried out by Alderotti least occasionally again.

Mondino published in 1316 a collection of practical dissection under the title Anathomia Mundini ( first printed in 1475 or 1478, with numerous reprints and reprints ), which was the first medieval anatomical work of this kind and to the time of the Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius ( 1514-1564 ) is the authoritative textbook remained in this area. It's in the tradition of Salerno and is only sporadically due to his own observations beyond it. Its importance lies therefore in spite of the empirical approach less in the content expansion, as in the standardization and authoritative fixation of the anatomical school knowledge. Mondino also wrote pamphlets on medication ( De ponderibus, De dosibus medicinae ) Konsilien in the tradition Alderottis and comments about Galen, Hippocrates and the aphorisms of Yuhanna ibn Māsawayh.

When his student Alessandra Giliani and Otto Angenius were called in the 19th century.

Modern editions

  • Lino Sighinolfi (ed.): Anatomia, riprodotta as un codice del Bolognese secolo XIV e volgarizzata nel secolo XV. Capelli, Bologna 1930 ( = Classici italiani della medicina, 1 )
  • Ernest Wickersheimer (ed.): Anatomies Mondino dei Luzzi et de de Guido de Vigevano. Droz, Paris 1926 ( with facsimile of - print edition of Pavia 1878)
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