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Italian anatomist (1522/23–1562)

Gabriele Falloppio (1522/23 – 9 October 1562) was an Italian priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius.

He was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century, giving his name to the fallopian tube.

Life

Falloppio grew up in Modena. His father died early but thanks to the support of affluent relatives he enjoyed a thorough humanist education in Modena, learning Latin and Greek and moving in the local circle of humanist scholars.

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He was for some years in the service of the Church, among others as a kind of warden at Modena's cathedral, but soon turned to medicine. In 1544, he performed a public anatomy in Modena. In 1545, at the latest, he began to study medicine at the University of Ferrara, at that time one of the best medical schools in Europe.

It was there also that he much later, in 1552, when he was already professor in Padua, received his medical doctorate under the