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Matthias de l'Obel

1538 - 1616

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Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616) was a Flemish physician and plant enthusiast who was born in Lille, Flanders, in what is now Hauts-de-France, France, and died at Highgate, London, England. He studied at the University of Montpellier and practiced medicine in the Low Countries and England, including positions as personal physicians to two monarchs. A member of the sixteenth-century Flemish School of Botany, he wrote a series of major treatises on plants in both Latin and Dutch. He was the first botanist to appreciate the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias de l'Obel is the 536th most popular biologist (down from 480th in 2019), the 3,324th most popular biography from France (up from 3,481st in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 536 out of 1,097. Before him are William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Edouard Van Beneden, William Curtis, and Ernst Schäfer. After him are Camille Guérin, Edward Daniel Clarke, Rupert Sheldrake, Kliment Timiryazev, Robert Fortune, and Johann Jakob Bernhardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1538, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 14. Before him are Matija Gubec, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Hōjō Ujimasa, Louis of Nassau, Ashikaga Yoshihide, and Turibius of Mogrovejo.  Among people deceased in 1616, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 17. Before him are Simeon Bekbulatovich, Johannes Fabricius, Kuzma Minin, Tang Xianzu, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, and Francis Beaumont. After him are Richard Hakluyt, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Cornelis Ketel, and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

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In France

Among people born in France, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 3,324 out of 6,770. Before him are René Huyghe (1906), Alfred Bruneau (1857), Virginie Demont-Breton (1859), Nicolas de Grigny (1672), Claude Pompidou (1912), and Irène Jacob (1966). After him are Camille Guérin (1872), Georges Hébert (1875), Josiane Balasko (1950), Henri Tomasi (1901), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), and Claude Le Jeune (1528).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 72. Before him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), François Marie Daudin (1776), Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Charles Chamberland (1851), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778). After him are Camille Guérin (1872), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), and René Maire (1878).

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