CLustus AT VIENNA AND LEYDEN 409 
Austria,* published at the Plantin press, like his preceding and 
succeeding works, Antwerp, 1583, with 364 figures, a work alike 
honorable to the author in arrangement, treatment and drawing, but 
miserably mutilated in the printing which went on at Antwerp 
while the author was in Vienna. Clusius was so ashamed of the 
appearance of his book that he bemoaned it bitterly (in a letter 
printed by Treviranus ¢ in 1830) and formed the plan to put forth 
a new and rectified edition, combining his two works on the Spanish 
and Pannonian plants, a plan which was realized 18 years later in 
his Rariorum plantarum historia of 1601. ¢ 
After retirement for five or six years, or since 1587, in Frank- 
fort, Clusius’ next and last removal was to Leyden, where in 1593 
when 67 he was professor at the university and lived and worked 
in ceaseless activity till the end, at the age of 84, Apr. 1609 ; 
accomplishing the publication, during his life at Leyden, of the 
two great and comprehensive works, his ‘ Rariorum ... his- 
Austriam et vicinas quandam pro- 
* “ Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Pannoniam, 
Again next year, 1584, 
vincias observatarum historia, quatuor libris expresse.’’ 766 p. 
with addition of Beithius ‘‘ Stirpium nomenclator Pannonicus.”’ Of this, m 
Trew, Trevianus and Meyer had copies; the sale of a copy at 7 fr. by A. Meilhac, 1845, 
is noticed by Pritzel. 
+ Christian Ludolf Treviranus, who edited at Leipsic in 1830, the Unpublished 
Letters of Clusius, and of Gesner, with his own notes and preface, an octavo of 62 p. 
bearing title ‘‘ Caroli Clusii et Conradi Gesneri Epistolae ineditae.’’ 
t He had long been suffering from bitter adversity at Vienna, of which we learn 
from the late publication of his letters by Treviranus. He and his family were devoted 
long in such poverty himself that while at Vienna he was ni 
house rent when due, and finally was reduced, in 
to appeal to his friend Thomas Rhedinger for the 
also had the misfortune to get his foot out of joint and to break an ankle 
followed religious persecution, for Rudolf II. as he grew older beg aye 
to drive out all the Protestants, —whom his father had employed without questioning their 
lief, Weary of the court, Clusius left Vienna forever in 1587, and lived at Frankfort, 
where he obtained a life-annuity from William IV., Landgrave of Hesse, but even here 
his fatalities continued; he had the misfortune to dislocate his hip, and unskillful 
handling of his hurt made a cripple thereafter, so that as Meyer remarks, ‘*he who was 
med to go up mountains and climb the rocks now from this time had to go upon 
two crutches ; so that he came into a sedentary life and his health declined in Germany ‘ 
only his thoughts’ activities and his Geist preserved him into highest age with un- 
troubled freshness.’ 
