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- Database Clusius
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- Lang von Wellenburg, Eva
BIO
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Austrian noblewoman, married to the imperial ambassador and administrator David Ungnad in 1579. She belonged to the Viennese circle of noble and rich gardenowners and plantlovers who frequently asked Carolus Clusius for help and for bulbs / seeds (like Anna Maria von Heusenstain, Wolfgang Chr. von
Entzestorff en Johan Aicholz and his wife).
Quoted in: C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601), p. 152, 160, 175, 183, 200, 243, 251, 255, 257, 258.
Residence
- Wien
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- E. van Gelder, Tussen hof en keizerskroon. Carolus Clusius en de ontwikkeling van de botanie aan Midden-Europese hoven (1573-1593) (Leiden 2011) 128-129, passim.
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- Database Clusius
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- Duke of Württemberg, Ludwig III
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German prince with a famous courtgarden in Stuttgart. Also known as Ludwig der Fromme, beacuse of his devout lutheranism and knowledge in religious matters.
Contact about plants with the botanist Carolus Clusius in 1582: Ludwig, duke of Württemberg, thanks Clusius for the received seeds which were send to his court-chemist Sebastian Vollmarn (Volmarius). In exchange the duke gives him two barrels of wine (letter in National Library, the Hague). Also in contact with other German princes abour gardening and plant exchange.
Quoted in: C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 133.
Residence
- Stuttgart
Occupation
- Noble/Prince/Emperor
Education
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N/AProvenance
- C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) 133.
- E. van Gelder, Tussen hof en keizerskroon. Carolus Clusius en de ontwikkeling van de botanie aan Midden-Europese hoven (1573-1593) (Leiden 2011) 164, 169, 195-6, 210.
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- Database Clusius
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- Starzerin, Anna
- Aicholtz, Anna
BIO
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Aicholz was the third wife of the Viennese physician university professor Johann Aicholz. After his death, she remarried the judge Zacharias Starzer, probably in 1591. Her brother (herr Unversagt, possibly Wolfgang) was an extremely powerful high government official in Vienna.
Her testament is in the Vienna University Archives.
Was a friend and correspondent of Carolus Clusius, who lived with her and her husband between 1573 and 1588. She took care of her husband's famous gardens after his death. Other Viennese garden owners (like von Entzestorff, Anna Maria von Heusenstain and Eva Ungnadin) complained that she neglected the garden.
Residence
- Wien - 1597
Occupation
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N/AProvenance
- Gelder, E. van, Tussen hof en keizerskroon. Carolus Clusius en de ontwikkeling van de botanie aan Midden-Europese hoven (1573-1593) (Leiden 2011) passim.
- Hartl, W. en K. Schrauf, Nachträge zum dritten Bande von Joseph Ritter von Aschbachs Geschichte der Wiener Universität. Die Wiener Universität und ihre Gelehrten 1520 bis 1565 (Wenen 1898) 24.
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N/AWiki and VIAF
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- Database Clusius
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Marshal of Landgraf Wilhelm IV von Hessen-Kassel. Humanist, owner of a rich library.
Corresponded with Carolus Clusius, Clusius offered him plants. Riedesel served as intermediary between Clusius and Wilhelm IV. Short before Riedesel died, Clusius sent him a letter. It arrived when Riedesel had been buried already.
Quoted in:
C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) p. 116.
Residence
- Kassel
Occupation
- administrator
- Marshall of Wilhelm IV von Hessen-Kassel , Kassel
Education
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- C. Clusius, Rariorum plantarum historia (Antwerp 1601) p. 116.
- F.W.T. Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse (Carolus Clusius). Nederlandsch kruidkundige, 1526-1609 Vol. II (The Hague 1942) pp. 124, 167.
Publications
N/AWiki and VIAF
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- Database Clusius
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Abbondio was an Italian artist at the court of Maximilian II in Vienna and of Rudolf II in Prague. He specialized in working with stone and making medals.
Abbondion wrote to Clusius about plants and minerals.
Residence
- Wien - 1591
- Prague 1576 - 1591
Occupation
- artist 156x? - 1576 - Court of Maximilian II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Wien
- artist 1576 - 1591 - Court of Rudolf II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Prague
Education
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- Gelder, E. van, Tussen hof en keizerskroon. Carolus Clusius en de ontwikkeling van de botanie aan Midden-Europese hoven (1573-1593) (Leiden 2011) 33.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Abbondio
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- Database Clusius
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- Boel, Willem
BIO
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Probably Dutch: Willem Boel. Merchant, rhizotomus.
Pulteney (1790) mentions Willem Boel as a Dutch botanist, who had travelled in Germany, Spain various parts of Barbary, lived in Tunis, and afterwards (around the time of the appearance of Gerard's Herball) lived at Lisbon. He seems to have sent seeds to / and corrresponded with Carolus Clusius from all of these countries. Sold plants to Clusius, especially from Spain. In 1608 they were in (frequent?) contact. He seems to have given / sent 200 seeds to the English botanist Parkinson in 1608.
Quoted in: C. Clusius, Curae Posteriores (Leiden 1611) 38, 59, 61, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73.
Residence
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- merchant
Education
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N/AProvenance
- C. Clusius, Curae Posteriores (Leiden 1611) 38, 59, 61, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73.
- F.W.T. Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse (Carolus Clusius). Nederlandsch kruidkundige, 1526-1609. I (The Hague 1927) 304.
- Richard Pultney, Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England (1790) 153.
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N/AWiki and VIAF
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Elmer Drew Merrill
MALEEast Auburn (Maine), United States 15-10-1876 - † Jamaica-Plain, United States 25-02-1956
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- KNAW-Lid
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Residence
- Jamaica-Plain
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- Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
Foreign Member Afd. Natuurkunde 22-05-1953
Provenance
- Merrill, E.D., Verslagen Natuurkunde 65, 1956, p. 30 door M.W. Woerdeman; Jaarboek 1955/56, p. 224-230 door C.E.B. Bremekamp.
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- Database Clusius
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Merchant in Frankfurt with a Flemish background, lived there with his brother Henri Bloeme. According to Jean Boisot they originally came from Tournai (letter to Carolus Clusius, University Library Leiden). Lived in Vienna as well. Bloeme had many of his men (trade) going back and forth between Antwerp | Brussels and Frankfurt. Also transported plants, which he sometimes stocked in his own garden in Frankfurt before transporting them further.
Residence
- Tournai
- Antwerpen
- Brussel
- Wien
Occupation
- merchant , Frankfurt am Main
Education
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- F. Egmond, The world of Carolus Clusius: natural history in the making, 1550-1610 (London 2010) 35, 233n22.
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N/AWiki and VIAF
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