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John Caius
1510–1573
A leading Tudor physician and scholar, he is best remembered as the driving force behind the refounding of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His life joined medicine, learning, and public service at a time when all three were rapidly changing.
5 Audiobooks
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker, John Caius
De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe Dogges
by John Caius
De Pronunciatione Graecae & Latinae Linguae
by John Caius
The Sweating Sickness
by John Caius
De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia
by John Caius
About the author
Born in 1510 and dying in 1573, John Caius was an English physician, humanist scholar, and an important figure in Cambridge life. He is often remembered as the second founder of Gonville and Caius College, the Cambridge college that still carries his name.
He studied medicine in an age when classical learning and new scientific curiosity were meeting, and he went on to build a strong reputation as a doctor. Caius served at court as physician to Edward VI and Mary I, showing the level of trust he earned in Tudor England.
His lasting legacy reaches beyond medicine. Through his gifts and reforms at Cambridge, he helped shape the college’s identity for centuries, linking his name not just with healing, but with education and scholarship as well.