Pierre Belon [SEP] date of birth
Pierre Belon
Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveler, 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. Ivan Pavlov called him the "prophet of comparative anatomy".
Life.
Belon was born in 1517 at the hamlet
(died c. 1637)
- Kryštof Harant, Czech nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer (died 1621)
- Henry Reynolds, English poet, schoolmaster and literary critic (died 1632)
- Juan de Aguilar Villaquirán, Spanish writer and translator (died 1618)
- "Probable birth year" – Henry Chettle, English dramatist and pamphleteer (died c. 1607)
Deaths.
- March 5 – Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (born 1512)
- April – Pierre Belon