!!!Clusius, Carolus Charles de lòEcluse

b. Arras (France), Feb. 18, 1526, 
d. Leyden (Netherlands), April 4, 1609, botanist; as the court 
botanist of Emperor Maximilian II in Vienna cultivated a garden with 
medicinal herbs and the first "Alpinum" (alpine garden). Taught at 
Leyden in 1593; author of the first book on Austrian botany. His works 
on Austrian and Hungarian flora were considered standard works for 
more than 100 years. He introduced the horse chestnut (1576), the 
tulip and the potato (1588) to Vienna and made the town a centre of 
floriculture. His botanical studies in the Austrian Alps (esp. around 
the Oetscher and Schneeberg mountains) made C. the first researcher of 
alpine flora.

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Work: Historia stirpium rariorum per Pannoniam, Austriam Oe 
observatorum, 1583.

!Literature
F. W. T. Hunger, C. de l´Ecluse, 2 vols., 
1927-1943; Festschrift on the 400th anniversary of scientific research 
by C.C. in the Pannonian area, 1973; J. Theunisz, C. C., 1993 
(with bibliography).



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