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High up diplomat and probably nobleman. Was diplomat for the French King at the imperial court in Vienna between 1570 and 1576, where he met Carolus Clusius, Philip Sidney etc. He owned a garden next to his house in Paris (and next door to the house of the King's mother) and received plants from Clusius. Also connected with H. Languetus, Msr de Sancerre and Monsr de Bayf. 4 letters to Clusius in University Library Leiden.

Quoted in: C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 153.

Residence

• Paris 
• Wien 1570 - 1576

Occupation

• diplomat of the French King 1570 - 1576 - Court of Maximilian II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Wien

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• C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 153.

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BIO

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• jewels
• exotica
• art

Biography:
Rich merchant in precious stones, jewels and exotica in Amsterdam. Also painter and collector. He was murdered in 1616 while delivering jewels to the court in The Hague (this assasination was recorded in an engraving by Esaias van de Velde).

He provided Carolus Clusius with exotic plants and wrote him about the bird of paradise (which he sold to emperor Rudolph II in Prague) in 1605. Send on a letter from E. le Gillon from Prague, to Clusius.

Quoted in: C. Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605) 361.

Residence

• Amsterdam 

Occupation

• merchant , Amsterdam

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Provenance

• C. Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605) 361.
• F. Egmond, The world of Carolus Clusius: natural history in the making, 1550-1610 (London 2010) 185.
• Van der Aa, Deel 20, p.91

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Son of the well known Augsburg merchant | prince Bartholeus Welser of the Welser banking firm?

Correspondence about plants and gardening with Carolus Clusius in 1588 (University Library Leiden).

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• Meylingen 

Occupation

• merchant? 

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BIO

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Highest degree: university

Fields of interest:

• greek language
• latin language
• law
• history

Biography:
Well known humanist and nephew of Bartolomeus Welser of the Welser Compagny. Studied in Rome, scholar in Greek, Latin and law, studied antiquities, German history and philology. Corresponded with famous scholars in Europe, for example Justus Lispius (1591-?) and Carolus Clusius (1598-1608). Member of the Lincean Academy in 1613.

Several publications on antique and German history.

Residence

• Augsburg 

Occupation

• Scholar/Humanist , Augsburg

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Provenance

• http:/galileo.rice.edu/sci/welser.html
• J. de Landtsheer, D. Sacré and C. Coppens, 'Justus Lipsius (1547-1606): een geleerde en zijn europese netwerk (20) 415-423' (Leuven 2006) 415-423.

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Canonicus regularis' acoording to Carolus Clusius.

Quoted in: C. Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605) 128, 129.

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Occupation

• Clergyman 

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• C. Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605) 128, 129.

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• politics

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Well-known English diplomat and administrator, worked for Elizabeth I and James I. Was in Vienna with Sir Philip Sidney from 1574-1576.

Correspondent of Carolus Clusius. Mentions a lot of people from the Vienna court and elsewhere in his letters.

Residence

• London 

Occupation

• Diplomat 

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Provenance

• Dictionary of National Biography

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Quoted in: C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 104.

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• C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 104.

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Very important courtphysician of Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II. Born in Breslau. Studied theology in Wittenberg, but switched to medicine in Padua on advice of Philipp Melanchton. Has been very important for the tolerant religious character of the Habsburg court.

Corresponded with many important scholars and physicians (among them Gesner), many of whom also belonged to Clusius' circle: Hubertus Languetus, Joachim II Camerarius (who worked as Crato's assistant for a while in Breslau), Thomas Rehdiger etc.

Longstanding friendship with Carolus Clusius, interesting correspondence. Crato functioned as a broker for Clusius at the Vienna court.

Several letters from the Vienna circle to Crato in the University Library in Leiden: 1 letter from Julius Alexandrinus (UB Bijzondere Collecties (KL): Brieven - FAC UB A 119), 10 letters from N. Biesius in UB Leiden (FAC UB A 117), 8 letters from Crato to Hugo Blotius (FAC UB A 120), 1 from Blotius to Crato (FAC UB A 35), 1 to Lipsius (BPL 246), 10 + 13 from Guarinonius (FAC UB A 143+FAC UB A 35), 7 from Languetus (FAC UB A 143).

Residence

• Breslau 
• Wien 
• Prague 

Occupation

• physician  - Court of Maximilian II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Wien

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Provenance

• Biography by Melchior Adam, Vitae Germanorum medicorum (1620). http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/adam.html
• Victor Fossel, Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin (Stuttgart, 1909).
• E. van Gelder, Tussen hof en keizerskroon. Carolus Clusius en de ontwikkeling van de botanie aan Midden-Europese hoven (1573-1593) (Leiden 2011) 42-48.
• J.F.A. Gillet, Crato von Crafftheim und seine Freunde: ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte: nach handschriftlichen Quellen. 2 vol. (Frankfurt, 1860-61).
• Howard Louthan, Johannis Crato and the Austrian Habsburgs : reforming a counter-reform court (Princeton, 1994), The Quest for Compromise Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge 2006).
• K. Muhlberger, "Bildung und Wissenschaft", in: F. Edelmayer & A. Kohler, Kaiser Maximilian II. Kultur und Politik im 16. Jahrhundert. (Munchen, 1992): 203-30.
• Several letters from the Vienna circle to Crato in the University Library in Leiden: 1 letter from Julius Alexandrinus (UB Bijzondere Collecties (KL): Brieven - FAC UB A 119), 10 letters from N. Biesius in UB Leiden (FAC UB A 117), 8 letters from Crato to Hugo Blotius (FAC UB A 120), 1 from Blotius to Crato (FAC UB A 35), 1 to Lipsius (BPL 246), 10 + 13 from Guarinonius (FAC UB A 143+FAC UB A 35), 7 from Languetus (FAC UB A 143).

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Quoted in:
C. Clusius, Curae Posteriores (Leiden 1611) Epitaph.

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• C. Clusius, Curae Posteriores (Leiden 1611) Epitaph.
• Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Deel 1, p.657-658

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BIO

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Fields of interest:

• botany

Biography:
Botanist, mainly based in Lyon. Studied in Montpellier.

Quoted in:
C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 54, 120.

Residence

• Lyon 

Occupation

• botanist 

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Provenance

• C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 54, 120.

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Carolus Clusius probably met him while visiting London in the winter of 1581.

Carolus Clusius dedicated his abbr. Latin translation of Monardes' Simplicium medicamentorum etc., liber tertius in 1582 to Eduard Dier and Sir Philip Sidney.

Residence

• London 

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Provenance

• F.W.T. Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse (Carolus Clusius). Nederlandsch kruidkundige, 1526-1609 Vol. I (The Hague 1927), p. 147, 154.

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Imperial court marshal of Rudolph II.

Corresponded with Carolus Clusius. Dietrichstein seems to have blocked the employment of Carolus Clusius under Rudolph II.

Residence

• Wien 
• Prague 

Occupation

• secretary  - Court of Rudolf II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Wien

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Provenance

• F.W.T. Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse (Carolus Clusius). Nederlandsch kruidkundige, 1526-1609 Vol. I (The Hague 1927), p. 138, 140, 159, 178.

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Fields of interest:

• poetry
• history

Biography:
Lord of Noordwijk and Langeveld, Kattendijke. A many-sided man. Member of the Compromise of Nobles (Verbond der Edelen) during the Eighty Years' War. Commander of Leiden against the Spanish during the siege in 1574. Member of the States General for Holland, and member of the Supreme Court of Holland and Zeeland. First curator of the Leiden University, and founder of the university library. Historian.

Corresponded with Carolus Clusius on his tasks in the botanical garden in Leiden.

Commander during the famous relief of Leiden in 1574.

Poems and many other publications.

Residence

• Noordwijk 
• Leiden 

Occupation

• councillor 30-09-1591 - 08-10-1604 - Supreme Court, Holland and Zeeland, Den Haag
• representative of Holland 26-07-1590 - 1592-01 - Staten-Generaal
• first curator 1575-02 - 08-10-1604 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden
• first librarian 01-03-1587 - 11-07-1593 - Universiteit Leiden, Leiden

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Provenance

• F.W.T. Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse (Carolus Clusius). Nederlandsch kruidkundige, 1526-1609 Vol. I (The Hague 1927) 214.
• Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Deel 6, p.425-426

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Studied medicine in Vienna, subscribed there in December 1577. Studied with Johann Aicholz, and was a co-student and friend of Balthasar ab Herden.

Was physician in the service of Hynek Brtniczky a Waldstein, high noble and governor of Mähren, at least in 1584. Between 1590 and 1602 he was working at the university in Vienna. Belonged to a circle of important physicians like Aicholz, Thomas Jordanus, Balthasar ab Herden among others, who have contact with the Vienna and Bohemian nobility (like Wolfgang Christoph von Entzestorff and Christoph von Eck und Hungersbach).

He visited Carolus Clusius in Vienna in 1584, in the company of Hynek Brtniczky a Waldstein. From that year onwards, the two corresponded as friends on a variety of subjects

Residence

• Wien 
• Brtnice 

Occupation

• physician 
• teacher  - University of Vienna, Wien

Education

• student of medicine  - University of Vienna, Wien

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Provenance

• Mentioned many times (as student and teacher) in L. Senfelder, Acta facultatis medicae, 1558-1605. Bd IV (Wenen 1908) 315 ff.

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This is probably not Sabine van Beieren, the wife of count Lamoraal van Egmont (beheaded in 1568), but their daughter: Sabine, Lady of Beierland. She was one of the youngest among eleven children in total. She married count Georg Eberhard zu Solms-Lich (born: 30-7-1568) on March 14, 1595. He died on February 23, 1602.

She is mentioned once in Carolus Clusius' Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605).

Quoted in:
C. Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605) p. 98.

Family relation with the famous count Lamoraal van Egmont who was beheaded at the start of the Eighty Years War in 1568.

Residence

• Delft 

Occupation

• aristocrat 

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Provenance

• C. Clusius, Exoticorum libri decem (Leiden 1605) p. 98.

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Chemist with an apothecary in Verona.

Residence

• Verona 

Occupation

• chemist 

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Artist, numismatic expert and printer. He is the uncle of the better known artist Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1616).

He married (before 1550) Elisabeth Verhulst, a daughter of a painter of Malines. Her sister married the famous painter and designer of tapestries Pieter Coecke van Aelst. His niece married Pieter Breughel.

The brothers Laurin invited him to Bruges in 1558. They financed a two-year journey (Nov. 1558-Nov. 1560) to visit and describe the principal coin collections in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France (978 cabinets!). Upon return he got appointed by the Laurin brothers as head of their private printing press at Laurocorinth (= first private printing press in Europe, September 1561-1576, 18 books). Laurocorinth (library and press!) became a centre of studies for the circle of Bruges humanists.

Published on antique coins (first publication 1557)

Direct contact with Clusius is probable, but no evidence yet.

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Occupation

• Artist 

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Provenance

• Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW)
• F. Egmond, Clusius, Cluyt and Saint Omer, p. 30

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