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Michael Servetus

1509 - 1553

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Michael Servetus (; Spanish: Miguel Servet; French: Michel Servet; also known as Michel Servetus, Miguel de Villanueva, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio (1553). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Servetus has received more than 931,976 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Michael Servetus is the 15th most popular physician (up from 19th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Spain (up from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Physician.

Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician and theologian who was born in 1511. He is most famous for his work on pulmonary circulation, which he published in 1553.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Michael Servetus ranks 15 out of 726. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Andreas Vesalius, Albert Schweitzer, William Harvey, and Ignaz Semmelweis. After him are Cesare Lombroso, Cyril of Alexandria, Alois Alzheimer, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Nestorius, and Pedanius Dioscorides.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1509, Michael Servetus ranks 2. Before him is John Calvin. After him are Şah Sultan, Daniele da Volterra, Jan Matsys, Fernão Mendes Pinto, John of Leiden, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Bernardino Telesio, Luis de Morales, Étienne Dolet, and Leone Leoni. Among people deceased in 1553, Michael Servetus ranks 5. Before him are François Rabelais, Şehzade Mustafa, Edward VI of England, and Lucas Cranach the Elder. After him are Şehzade Cihangir, Pedro de Valdivia, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Girolamo Fracastoro, Sinan Pasha, and Lucrezia de' Medici.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Michael Servetus ranks 48 out of 3,355. Before him are Joan Fuster (1922), Montserrat Caballé (1933), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100), Arcadius (377), Roland (736), and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617). After him are Pedro Almodóvar (1949), Isabella II of Spain (1830), Francisco de Zurbarán (1598), Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895), John of the Cross (1542), and El Cid (1045).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Spain

Among physicians born in Spain, Michael Servetus ranks 1. After him are Al-Zahrawi (936), Ibn Zuhr (1091), Joseph Calasanz (1556), Severo Ochoa (1905), Hasdai ibn Shaprut (910), Leander of Seville (534), Petrus Alphonsi (1062), Nicolás Monardes (1508), Gregorio Marañón (1887), Concepción Aleixandre (1862), and Fernando Quiroga Palacios (1900).

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