Michael Servetus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish physician and theologian
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Place of Birth: Tudela, Navarre, Spain
About Michael Servetus
- Michael Servetus (; Spanish: Miguel Serveto as real name, French: Michel Servet), also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva, Michel Servet, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve (Tudela, Navarre, 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).
- He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. He is renowned in the history of several of these fields, particularly medicine.
- He participated in the Protestant Reformation, and later rejected the Trinity doctrine and mainstream Catholic Christology.
- After being condemned by Catholic authorities in France, he fled to Calvinist Geneva where he was burnt at the stake for heresy by order of the city's governing council.
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| Alternative names | Christian Fritsch, Christianus Fritschius | ||
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| Date of birth/death | 3 April 1695 | 28 September 1769 | |
| Location of birth/death | Saxony | Schiffbek | |
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