Carolus Clusius

Carolus Clusius
Portrait of Carolus Clusius painted in 1585
Carolus Clusius 1585
Born19 February 1526
Died4 April 1609(1609-04-04) (aged 83)
NationalityArtois
Alma materUniversity of Montpellier
Known forTreatises on plants, national flora
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, horticulture
InstitutionsUniversity of Leiden, Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Author abbrev. (botany)Clus.
Nymphaea from Rariorum plantarum historia

Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (19 February 1526 – 4 April 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.