Famous People with Name Secundus

Caius Plinius Secundus            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Caius Plinius Secundus: , was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Naturalis Historia. He is known for his saying "True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read".He was the son of a Roman equestrian with the cognomen Celer by one Marcella, some say the son of the Senator Gaius or Caius Caecilius of Novum Comum (Como) others of one Titus, which suggests a possible connection with the Titii Pomponii, and being the connection with the Caecilii from Celer, cognomen used by that Gens[1]. He was born in Como, not (as is sometimes supposed) at Verona: it is only as a native of Gallia Transpadana that he calls Catullus of Verona his conterraneus, or fellow-countryman, not his municeps, or fellow-townsman.[2] A statue of Pliny on the facade of the Duomo of Como celebrates him as a native son.

Caspar Bartholin Secundus            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Caspar Bartholin Secundus: was a Danish anatomist who first described the "Bartholin's gland" in the 17th century. Born in Copenhagen. He came from an eminent family and started his medical studies in 1671 at the age of 16. In 1674, at the age of 19, the King appointed him as Professor of Philosophy. He described the glands that bear his name in 1677.