CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. May
  4. 21
  5. Hieronymus Fabricius

Deaths on May 21

Hieronymus Fabricius
1619May, 21

Hieronymus Fabricius

Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, also known as Girolamo Fabrizio or Hieronymus Fabricius (20 May 1533 – 21 May 1619), was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology."

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1619

  • 30Jul

    House of Burgesses

    In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
  • 4Dec

    Berkeley Hundred

    Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."