> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 877](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190348) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8571-1) LSID 8571-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960658) QID Q960658 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rondelet, Guillaume (1507-1566), French ichthyologist, botanist and physician; MD Montpellier 1537, practicing physician at Maringues and Montpellier; from 1545 regius profesor of medicine at Montpellier; from 1540 also personal physician to François Cardinal Tournon; chancellor of Montpellier 1556-1566. **Abbreviated name**: *Rondelet* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rondelet*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 40; Backer p. 498; Barnhart 3: 175 (b. 27 Sep 1507, d. 30 Jul 1566); BM 4: 1727; Bossert p. 337; DSB 11: 527-528 (secondary literature); Kew 4: 513; PR (alph.), ed. 1: 2429; TL-2/4907; see J. Daléchamps, L. Ghini, M. de L'Obel, G.I. Molina; Tucker 1: 13, 605-606. #### Biofile - Broussonnet, Notice sur Guillaume Rondelet, 16 p., from Ephém. méd. Montpellier, Jan 1828. - Dulieu, G., Clio medica 1: 89-111. 1966 (biogr., sources, sec. refs.). - Ewan, J. & N., John Banister 13, 334, 339, 354. 1970. - Jeanselme et al., Bull. franç. Hist. Méd. 19: 203-206. 1925. - Joubert, L., Vita Gulielmi Rondeletii 1568 (in his Opera latina 2: 186-193. 1582). - Jourdan, A. J.L., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 7: 48-49. 1825. - Lapeyrouse, P., Hist. abr. pl. Pyren. xx. 1813. - Martins, Ch., Le jardin des plantes de Montpellier 7, 13, 33, 76. 1854. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 348. 1969. - Oppenheimer, J.M. Bull. inst. Hist. Med. Johns Hopkins Univ. 4: 817-834. 1936 (biogr., b. 25 Sep 1507; analysis of personality, bibl., secondary references). - Planchon, J.E. et G., Rondelet et ses disciples. Montpellier 1886, 2 and 46 p., from Montpellier medical 1866. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 117. 1903, 3(3): 112. 1905. - Wright, R.L., Gardener's tribute 214-241. 1949 (portr. on p. 128g). #### Eponymy *Rondeletia* Linnaeus (1753).