Alessandra Giliani

Alessandra Giliani

Alessandra Giliani (1307 – 26 March 1326) is best known as the first woman to be recorded in historical documents as practicing anatomy and pathology. She's reputed to have worked as a prosector, preparing corpses for anatomical study, under the famed anatomist Mondino de' Liuizzi at the University of Bologna. However, all evidence of her work has been either lost or destroyed. Giliani is mentioned in Michele Medici's 1857 history of the Bolognese school of anatomy, but some argue she was invented by the writer Alessandro Macchiavelli in the 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandra Giliani is the 715th most popular biologist (down from 574th in 2019). (down from 3,297th in 2019)