Matthias de l'Obel

Mathias de l'Obel
Engraving by Francis Delaram, 1615
Born	1538 Lille
Died	3 March 1616 (aged 77–78) Highgate, England
Resting place	St Denis, Highgate[1]
Nationality	Flemish
Alma mater	University of Leuven University of Montpellier
Known for	Herbal
Children	2
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine, botany
Institutions	Antwerp, Delft, Middelburg, London
Author abbrev. (botany)	Lobel

Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616)^[2] was a Flemish physician and plant enthusiast who was born in Lille, Flanders, in what is now Hauts-de-France, France, and died at Highgate, London, England. He studied at the University of Montpellier and practiced medicine in the low countries and England, including positions as personal physicians to two monarchs. A member of the sixteenth-century Flemish School of Botany, he wrote a series of major treatises on plants in both Latin and Dutch. He was the first botanist to appreciate the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons. The Lobelia plant is named after him.