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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias de l'Obel has received more than 40,435 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias de l'Obel is the 480th most popular biologist (down from 408th in 2019), the 3,480th most popular biography from France (down from 3,122nd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Biologist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 480 out of 1,097. Before him are Jacques Loeb, Dmitry Belyayev, Henri Ernest Baillon, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Karl Gegenbaur, and Heinrich Anton de Bary. After him are Johan Peter Falk, Benedykt Dybowski, Archibald Reiss, Heinz Christian Pander, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 3,480 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Cahen (1909), Henri Brisson (1835), Georges Carpentier (1894), Henri Rabaud (1873), Francis Cabrel (1953), and Guillaume Delisle (1675). After him are Alexis Piron (1689), Octave Feuillet (1821), Jean Yanne (1933), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Gérard de Villiers (1929), and Arthur Morin (1795).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 63. Before him are Alfred Grandidier (1836), Gabriel Bibron (1805), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), Camille Guérin (1872), and Henri Ernest Baillon (1827). After him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746).

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