Pierre Belon
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pierre Belon du Mans, Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus
French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat (1517-1564)
Key facts
- Born
- 1517, Souletière near Cérans-Foulletourte , France
- Died
- April 1564 (1564-04-00) (aged 46–47) , Paris, France
- Fields
- Ichthyology Natural history
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Cérans-Foulletourte
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- historian
- Educated at
- Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- biology
- Image
- Pierre Belon from Bibl. Nat. de France cropped.jpg
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- writing language
- French
- Commons gallery
- Pierre Belon
- date of birth
- 1517-01-01
- Commons category
- Pierre Belon
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons Creator page
- Pierre Belon
- name in native language
- Pierre Belon
- date of death
- 1564-04-00
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Works in European collections
15 objects attributed to Pierre Belon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, auec leurs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel escrite en sept liures
P. Bellonii... From arboribus coniferis, resiniferis, aliis quoque nonnullis sempiterna fronde virentibus cum earundem iconibus ad virum expressis: item de melle cedrino, cedria, agarico, resinis, iis que ex coniferis proficiscuntur..
Petri Belloniii... De admirabili operum antiquorum et rerum suspiciendarum praestantia liber primus De medicato funere, seu cadauere condito & lugubri defunctorum eiulatione liber secundus. De medicamentis nonnullis seruandi cadaueris vim obtinentibus liber tertius..
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (known for Pavlov's dogs) called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy".
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierre Belon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.