Flemish Anatomist, born in Brussels. He studied at Louvain, Padua, and Paris universities, and became professor at Padua, Bologna, and Basel. His major work was the De humani corporis favrica libri septem (1543, Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body) , which greatly advannced the science of anatomy with its detailed descriptions and drawings. He was sentenced to death by the Inquisiton for his new approach, which involved dissection of the human body, but the sentence was communted to a pilgrimmage to Jerusalem.