Mathias of Obel

Mathias of Obel (or of Lobel or Lobelius ) is a Botaniste Flemish, born in 1538 with Lille and dead the March 3rd 1616 with Highgate in Great Britain.

Of Obel studies with Montpellier near Guillaume Rondelet which holds it in high regard.

It practices the medicine of 1571 with 1581 with Antwerp and with Delft where he is the doctor of the prince of Orange In 1584, he leaves the Netherlands to flee the civil war there and gains the the United Kingdom where he will remain until his death. He is superintandent it Botanical garden of Hackney rested by Lord Zouch. He becomes also the botanist of the king near Jacques I {{er}}.

In collaboration with Pierre Pena (which one is unaware of all), it makes appear His Stirpium adversaria nova in 1571 and 1576, Plantarum seu stirpium historia , which will be translated into Flemish, in 1581, under the title of Kruydboeck .

In its Stirpium , Obel describes approximately 1.500 species in a precise way with indication of localistés where the species were collected: it is a true flora of the surroundings of Montpellier but also described plants of the the Tyrol, of Suisse and Holland. This work is accompanied by 268 Gravure S on wood of small sizes.

The second, Plantarum is more than one simple adaptation of the first with an index in seven languages and more than de 2.000 illustrations (from which the majority are drawn from the works of Clusius, of Rembert Dodoens and Pierandrea Mattioli. Of Obel the dedication to the queen Elisabeth I {{Re}}. It is printed by Christophe Plantin and is a great success. One finds there as an embryo of classification more successful as in the preceding authors: it joins together with accuracy the Roseau X, the Graminée S and the Céréale S but also, in another group the Trèfle S and the Oxalis because of their sheets subdivided into three.

Charles Plumier dedicated to him the kind Lobelia (of the family of the Campanulaceae).

Publications

Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia. Cui annexum is adversariorum volumen . Antwerpiae Plantin 1576 . The Plantin editor repurchased the stock of the Stirpium Adversaria Nova published with London by Purfoot in 1570 - 1571, changed the title page, added an index, the appendix of Lobel, the Formulae Remediorum of Rondelet, and on sale put it following the work of Lobel.
Plantarum seu stirpium icons . Antverp, Christophe Plantin, 1581.
Icons stirpium, seu plantarum tam exoticarum, quam indigenarum, in gratiam rei herbariae studiosorum in duas leave digestae. Cum septem linguarum indicibus, AD diversarum nationum usum . Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiana, 1591. Withdrawing, with a new title, " Plantarum, seu stirpium icons. Plantin, 1581 ".

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