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Also Known As Matthaeus Lobelius • Matthias de Lobel
Born 1538 • Lille • France
Died March 3, 1616 (aged 78) • London • England
Notable Works “Stirpium adversaria nova”

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
al-Dīnawarī
astronomer, botanist, and historian
Dillenius, detail from an engraving by James Heath after an original portrait by an unknown artist
Johann Jakob Dillenius
German botanist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon
French naturalist
Jeanne Baret
Jeanne Baret
French botanist and explorer
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
French botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist

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