Matthias de l'Obel

Mathias de l'Obel
Born1538
Died3 March 1616 (aged 77–78)
Highgate, England
Resting placeSt Denis, Highgate[1]
NationalityFlemish
Alma mater
Known forHerbal
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, botany
InstitutionsAntwerp, Delft, Middelburg, London
Author abbrev. (botany)Lobel

Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616)[2] 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. The Lobelia plant is named after him.

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  2. ^ Mallet & Jovet 2008.