Guillaume Rondelet

Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), known also as Rondeletius, was professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France. Famed as a teacher, Rondelet was also the author of a book Libri de Piscibus Marinis on the natural history of fishes.

He may have been the model for Dr. Rondibilis in the Tiers livre of François Rabelais. He also taught the famous Nostradamus.

A genus of fish, and a plant genus are both named Rondeletia after Rondelet.

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