Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., October 27, 2021
André Vésale (1514-1564) is considered the father of modern anatomy.
Coming from a long line of Flemish doctors, he developed a passion for anatomy from childhood.
Gifted in medicine, author of “De humani corporis fabrica”, a famous anatomy treatise, in 1544 he became the surgeon of the Emperor Charles V and his son, Philippe II of Spain.
In 1559, he even tried, in vain, to save Henry II, the King of France, who was dying after a terrible injury.
But because of his treatises which call into question the biblical accounts, André Vesalius is overtaken by the all-powerful Inquisition ... A look back at the life of the greatest doctor of the Renaissance.