John Caius
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| Born |
6 October 1510 Norwich, England |
| Died | 29 July 1573 (aged 62) London, England |
| Nationality | England |
| Fields | Medicine |
| Institutions | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University of Padua |
John Caius MD (born John Kays) (/ˈkiːz/; 6 October 1510 – 29 July 1573), also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Caius was born in Norwich and was educated at Norwich School. In 1529 he was admitted as a student at what was then Gonville Hall, Cambridge, founded by Edmund Gonville in 1348 - where he seems to have mainly studied divinity.
After graduating in 1533, he visited Italy, where he studied under the celebrated Montanus and Vesalius at Padua. In 1541 he took his degree as a physician at the University of Padua.
In 1543 he visited several parts of Italy, Germany and France and then returned to England. Upon his return from Italy he Latinised his surname, an action which although self-aggrandising, was somewhat fashionable at the time.
Caius was a physician in London in 1547, and was admitted as a fellow of the College of Physicians, of which he was for many years president.
In 1557 Caius, at that time physician to Queen Mary, enlarged the foundation of his old college, changed the name from "Gonville Hall" to "Gonville and Caius College," and endowed it with several considerable estates, adding an entire new court at the expense of £1,834. He accepted the mastership of the college 24 January 1559 on the death of Dr Bacon, and held it until about a month before his own death.
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