What is Rembert Dodoens?
{{Infobox Person | name = Rembert Dodoens | image = Rembert Dodoens01.jpg | image_size = frameless | caption = Rembert Dodoens | birth_date = {{Birth date|1517|6|29|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Mechelen]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1585|3|10|1517|6|29|df=y}} | death_place = [[Leyden]] | education = | occupation = physician and botanist | spouse = Kathelijne de Bruyn(e) | parents = | children = }} [[Image:Rembert Dodoens00.jpg|frameless|right]] '''Rembert Dodoens''' (29 June 1517 &ndash; 10 March 1585) was a [[Flemings|Flemish]] [[physician]] and [[botanist]]. He is also known by his [[Latinization (literature)|Latinized]] name '''Rembertus Dodonaeus'''. ==Biography== Dodoens was born in [[Mechelen]]. In 1530 he began his studies in [[medicine]], [[cosmography]] and [[geography]] at the [[University of Leuven]]. He graduated in 1535. He became a [[physician]] in Mechelen in 1538. He married Kathelijne De Bruyn(e) in 1539. He had a short stay in [[Basel]] (1542–1546). He turned down a chair at the University of Leuven in 1557. He also turned down an offer to become court physician of emperor [[Philip II of Spain]]. He became the court physician of the [[Austria]]n emperor [[Rudolph II]] in [[Vienna]] (1575–1578). He then became [[professor]] in medicine at the [[University of Leiden]] in 1582, and remained there until his death. Dodoens wrote ''Cruydeboeck'' in 1554. In his times, it was the most translated book after the [[Bible]]. It became a work of worldwide renown, used as a [[reference book]] for two centuries.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rembert Dodoens: iets over zijn leven en werk – Dodoens' werken|date=20 December 2005|work=Plantaardigheden – Project Rembert Dodoens (Rembertus Dodonaeus)|language=Dutch|publisher=Stichting Kruidenhoeve/Plantaardigheden, Balkbrug, the Netherlands|url=http://plantaardigheden.nl/dodoens/over_dodoens/leven_en_werk.htm#dodoens|accessdate=17 May 2007|archive-date=10 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610070835/htt