# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antonio-musa-brassavola
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:11.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antonio-musa-brassavola"
name: "Antonio Musa Brassavola"
slug: "antonio-musa-brassavola"
description: "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."
tagline: "Italian physician and botanist (1500-1555)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Antonius_Brassavola_Portretten_van_klassieke_en_recente_filosofen_en_geneesheren_(serietitel)%2C_RP-P-OB-26.787_(cropped2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1500-01-16"
deathDate: "1555-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.40846
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "انطونيو موسى براسافولا"
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    title: "Antonio Musa Brassavola"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola"
    title: "Antonio Musa Brassavola"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brasavola"
    title: "Antonio Musa Brasavola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola"
    title: "Antonio Musa Brassavola"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brasavola"
    title: "Antonio Musa Brasavola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brasavola"
    title: "Antonio Musa Brasavola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonius_Musa_Brasavolus"
    title: "Antonius Musa Brasavolus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Musa_Brassavola"
    title: "Antonio Musa Brassavola"
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    title: "Бразавола, Антонио Муза"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump