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Flanders, 1526 ; lived chiefly in Germany and Netherlands to 

 avoid religious persecution. 1573, invited by Maxn. II. to 

 Vienna and made superintendent of Royal Gardens. 1593, 

 Professor at Leyden, where he died (1609), 84 years old. 

 Translated Dodonzus's Cruydcbocck into French 1557. 1563-4, 

 travelled with Graf Fugger in France, Belgium, Spain and 

 Portugal. 1 57 1, visited London ; a friend of Drake. " None 

 of his predecessors or contemporaries has more enriched 

 Botany with new discoveries " (Meyer, iv.). Works : 



1. Caroli Clusii Atrebatis variorum aliquot stirpium per 

 Hispanias observatarum Historia. Antwerp. Plantin, 1576. 

 8vo. 299 Woodcuts. 



2. Rariorum aliquot* Stirpium per Paunoniam Austriam 

 . . Historia, IV. Books. Antwerp, Christ. Plantin, 1583. 

 8vo. 364 Woodcuts. 



3. Rariarum Plantarum Historia. Antwerp. Moretus, 

 1601. Folio. 



4. Exoticorum Libri Decern. Ex off. Plant. 1605, folio. 



5. Curae Posteriores. 1611. 4to. 



129. Cordus, Euricius, b. i486 in Hess (father of Valerius 

 Cordus, b. 1515); correspondent of Erasmus; studied 

 Medicine at Ferrara, 1527; became Professor of Med. at 

 Marburg ; translated Alexipharmaka and Theriaka of 

 Nikandros into Latin verse, and wrote his book in German 

 on Theriak, 1532 ; his Botanilogicon, published at Cologne 

 in 1534; d. 1538 at Bremen (Meyer). 



Cordus, Valerius, b. 1515 ; studied at Wittenberg 1535; 

 his "Dispensatorium Pharmacorum Omnium" at Nurem- 

 berg. 1542, visited Padua, Ferrara and Bologna. Caught 

 fever and died at Rome 1544, set. 29. Works: " Annota- 

 tions ad Dioscoridem," published 5 years after his death, 

 as appendix to the translation of Ruellius. Frankfort, 



