"Clus." redirects here. For the city in Romania, see Cluj-Napoca.
Carolus Clusius
Carolus Clusius 1585
Born
19 February 1526
Arras
Died
4 April 1609(1609-04-04) (aged 83)
Leiden
Nationality
Flemish
Alma mater
University of Montpellier
Known for
Treatises on plants, national flora
Scientific career
Fields
Botany, horticulture
Institutions
University of Leiden, Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Author abbrev. (botany)
Clus.
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.
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or CarolusClusius (19 February 1526 – 4 April 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist...
the sweet-lady or Clusius' gentian, is a large-flowered, short-stemmed gentian, native to Europe. It is named after CarolusClusius, one of the earliest...
Clusius may refer to: CarolusClusius (1526-1609), Flemish doctor and botanist Clusius (Ulmus), a hybrid elm cultivar This disambiguation page lists articles...
credited with introducing potatoes into England. In 1588, botanist CarolusClusius made a painting of what he called "Papas Peruanorum" from a specimen...
Neotropics. The genus is named by Carl Linnaeus in honor of the botanist CarolusClusius. The closest relatives of Clusia are the neotropical genera Chrysochlamys...
of a Sarracenia to show up in botanical literature was published by CarolusClusius, who received a partial dried specimen of what was later determined...
which belonged to the Dutch professor Pieter Pauw, was mentioned by CarolusClusius in 1605. Its provenance is unknown, and it is now lost, but it may...
credited with supplying lilac cuttings to the Dutch horticulturist CarolusClusius about 1562. Well-connected botanists, such as the great herbalist John...
the earliest treatise on the medicinal and economic plants of India. CarolusClusius translated it into Latin, which was widely used as a standard reference...
simplicium aliquot medica-mentorum apud Indos nascientum historia of CarolusClusius. The drink is thought to have originated in 17th-century Europe. Caffè...
known to be grown in cultivation in about 1658 and was illustrated by CarolusClusius. It has been given the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden...
Avicenna "Auicen", Pliny the Elder, Conrad Gessner, Rembert Dodoens, CarolusClusius, and Matthias de l'Obel. The genus name is a compound of the Greek...
of the species included in the modern genus can be traced back to CarolusClusius in 1601, long before the modern rules of botanical nomenclature were...
powdered in milk to kill flies." The 16th-century Flemish botanist CarolusClusius traced the practice of sprinkling it into milk to Frankfurt in Germany...
such as Leonhart Fuchs, Valerius Cordus, Lobelius, Rembert Dodoens, CarolusClusius, John Gerard and William Turner. Gradually these herbals included more...
word Alca had been used by earlier authors for the razorbill such as CarolusClusius in 1605 and Francis Willughby in 1676. The razorbill (Alca torda) is...
"al-" is the Arabic definite article). In 1593 the Latin botanist CarolusClusius spelled it mahaleb. Today its cultivation and use is largely restricted...
woodcut in John Gerard's 1597 Great Herball, shortly thereafter in CarolusClusius' 1601 Fungorum in Pannoniis Observatorum Brevis Historia, and was one...
Noel (12 December 1571). "Letter from Capperon, Noël to Clusius, Carolus, 1571-12-12". Clusius Correspondence (Letter). University of Leiden. Retrieved...
title page the author's name appears in its well-known Latin form CarolusClusius. The full title is: Exoticorum libri decem, quibus animalium, plantarum...
elegans. This Latin name had been used in 1605 by the Flemish botanist CarolusClusius in his book Exoticorum libri decem for the hawk-headed parrot, however...
reputation publishing the works of Dutch herbalists Rembert Dodoens and CarolusClusius and developing a vast library of illustrations. Translations of early...
a section from the Rariorum plantarum historia, 1601: see Clusius (1601)) Clusius, Carolus (1601). Rariorum plantarum historia: quae accesserint, proxima...
plants and medicines, soon translated by Flemish pioneer botanist CarolusClusius. In architecture, the huge profits of the spice trade financed a sumptuous...
micaceus was illustrated in a woodcut by the 16th-century botanist CarolusClusius in what is arguably the first published monograph on fungi, the 1601...
family. Bird's nest fungi were first mentioned by Flemish botanist CarolusClusius in Rariorum plantarum historia (1601). Over the next couple of centuries...