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Guillaume Rondelet (27 September 150730 July 1566), known also as Rondeletus (Rondeletius), was Regus Professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University between 1556 and his death in 1566. He achieved renown as an anatomist and a naturalist with a particular interest in botany and zoology. His major work was a lengthy treatise on marine animals, which took two years to write and became a standard reference work for about a century afterwards, but his lasting impact lay in his education of a roster of star pupils who became leading figures in the world of late-16th century science. ==Early life and education== Rondelet was born in Montpellier in 1507. His father was an ''aromatius'', a combination of pharmacist, grocer and druggist. Both parents died while he was a child and he was brought up in the care of his elder brother and sister, who was the wealthy widow of a merchant from Florence. He was educated in Montpellier and was enrolled at the city's university before being sent to Paris in 1525, where he studied at the Collège de Sorbonne. He matriculated in 1529 and returned to Montpellier; having developed an interest in medicine, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at his home town's university. He became ''procurator'' (Student Registrar)〔BIU Montpellier: registre S 19 folio 105 verso〕 within a year. He became friends around this time with a fellow physician, François Rabelais, who later wrote ''La vie de Gargantua et Pantagruel'' in which Rondelet is satirised under the thinly disguised alias of "Rondibilis". In October 1529, while serving as ''procurator'', Rondelet expelled the newly enrolled Nostradamus from the university for being an apothecary and slandering doctors. Rondelet moved to Pertuis in the Vaucluse after gaining his medical degree from Montpellier and tried to supplement his income by teaching local children, but met with little success. He went back to Paris to learn Greek and to study anatomy, again supporting himself through teaching. He practised for a while as a medical doctor at Maringues in the Auvergne before returning to Montpellier in 1537. There he finished his doctorate〔 and married Jeanne Sandre the following year. The couple lived with Jeanne's family for the next seven years.〔 His medical practice was not a success. He managed his finances badly and he outraged the citizens of Montpellier when he publicly dissected his infant son in an attempt to determine the cause of death. He became a teacher with the medical faculty in 1539 but the arrival of plague in Montpellier a few years later meant that he found himself with almost nobody to teach; only three students were left by 1543.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guillaume Rondelet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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