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Prospero Alpini

1553 - 1617

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Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 1553 – 6 February 1617) was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prospero Alpini is the 340th most popular physician (up from 377th in 2019), the 2,224th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,575th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Prospero Alpini ranks 340 out of 726. Before him are Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Dorothea Erxleben, Fernando J. Corbató, Louis de Jaucourt, Victor Babeș, and Richard Wilhelm. After him are Mary Putnam Jacobi, Friedrich Hoffmann, Horace Wells, Masawaiyh, Podalirius, and James Curtis Hepburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1553, Prospero Alpini ranks 9. Before him are Louise of Lorraine, Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, Archduke Ernest of Austria, Luca Marenzio, Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, and Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé. After him are Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, John Florio, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Nicolò Contarini, and Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Among people deceased in 1617, Prospero Alpini ranks 14. Before him are Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, David Fabricius, Concino Concini, 4th Dalai Lama, Fausto Veranzio, and Giovanni Botero. After him are Alphonsus Rodriguez, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, Leonora Dori, Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, and François d'Aguilon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Prospero Alpini ranks 2,224 out of 5,161. Before him are Roger III of Sicily (1175), Eduardo di Capua (1865), Lucia Anguissola (1536), Gloria Guida (1955), Prince Ferdinand Pius, Duke of Calabria (1869), and Vigilius of Trent (355). After him are Perino del Vaga (1501), Renato Guttuso (1911), Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio (1330), Cigoli (1559), Luigi Guido Grandi (1671), and Alessandro Nannini (1959).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Prospero Alpini ranks 22. Before him are Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501), Hieronymus Fabricius (1533), Ennio Antonelli (1936), Saint Fabiola (400), Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666), and Alessandro Achillini (1463). After him are Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1883), Filippo Pacini (1812), Luigi Carlo Farini (1812), Abella (1400), Realdo Colombo (1516), and Giorgio Biandrata (1515).

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