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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 37,937 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias de l'Obel is the 409th most popular biologist, the 3,134th most popular biography from France and the 51st most popular French Biologist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 409 out of 841. Before him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Abraham Trembley, Hermann Burmeister, William Curtis, Adolf Mayer, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Louis Claude Richard, Peter Artedi, Henrik Steffens, George Prideaux Robert Harris, and Svante Pääbo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1538, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 14. Before him are Louis of Nassau, Infanta Maria of Guimarães, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Hōjō Ujimasa, Ashikaga Yoshihide, and Turibius of Mogrovejo.  Among people deceased in 1616, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 16. Before him are Andreas Libavius, Magdalene of Brandenburg, Johannes Fabricius, Kuzma Minin, Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, and Tang Xianzu. After him are Vitsentzos Kornaros, Francis Beaumont, and Richard Hakluyt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 3,134 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-François Revel (1924), Peter Julian Eymard (1811), Pierre Souvestre (1874), Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1010), Orlan (1947), and Charles Rollin (1661). After him are Flodoard (894), Pierre Veyron (1903), Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755), David Belle (1973), Christian Metz (1931), and Renaud (1952).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Matthias de l'Obel ranks 51. Before him are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Lucien Quélet (1832), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Camille Guérin (1872), and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805). After him are Louis Claude Richard (1754), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Auguste Chevalier (1873), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), and Alfred Grandidier (1836).

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