# Antonio Musa Brassavola

> Antonio Musa Brassavola was an Italian physician and one of the most famous of his time. He studied under Niccolò Leoniceno and Giovanni Manardo. He was the friend and physician of Ercole II, the duke of Este. He was also the consulting physician of Kings Francis I, Charles V, Henry VIII and Popes Paul III, Leo X, Clement VIII and Julius III. He performed the first successful tracheotomy, and published an account of it in 1546. He was the chair of philosophy in Ferrara and also studied botany and medicine. A genus of orchid, called Brassavola, is named after him.

*Italian physician and botanist (1500-1555)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Born:** 1500-01-16
- **Died:** 1555-07-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola)
- [انطونيو موسى براسافولا](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7)
- [Antonio Musa Brassavola](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola)
- [Antonio Musa Brassavola](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola)
- [Antonio Musa Brasavola](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brasavola)
- [Antonio Musa Brassavola](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola)
- [Antonio Musa Brasavola](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brasavola)
- [Antonio Musa Brasavola](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brasavola)
- [Antonius Musa Brasavolus](https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonius_Musa_Brasavolus)
- [Antonio Musa Brassavola](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola)
- [Бразавола, Антонио Муза](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B0)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338661)

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