Brabant physician and botanist. Leeuwarden, 1518 - Leiden, 10 March 1585. His parents came to live in Malines where Dodonaeus spent his youth (he often called himself 'Mechliniensis'). He studied at the University of Louvain, becoming already in 1535, at the age of 17, licentiate in medicine. After some voyages abroad he settled down as a physician at Malines in 1545 or 1546. Physician of Emperors Maximilian II and Rudolph II, he lived from November 1574 till 1580 in Vienna. In 1580 he returned to Brabant by way of Cologne, but left in 1582 for Leiden, where he was presented the chair of pathological and therapeutical medicine at the university. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 6, 1878, Columns 85-112; BB, II, pages 192-235 (useful biographical notice and detailed description of Dodonaeus's publications); H. de Vocht. History of the Foundation and the Rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, III, 1954, pages 335-345; Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, 1, 1964, Columns 414-419. Other bibliographical references in A. Gerlo - H.D.L. Vervliet, Bibliographie de l'humanisme des anciens Pays-Bas, 1972, pages 192 and 287.
- cp012692: Epistola ad amicum. Leiden, 1583-1584.
- cp010815: Medicinalium observationum exempla rara. Leiden, 1585.
- cp011777: Frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum ac eorum quae eo pertinent historia, 1566.
- cp011859: Historia frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium herbarum ac eorum quae eo pertinent, 1569.
- cp012854: Florum et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia, 1568.
- cp011358: Florum et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia, 1569.
- cp010367: Purgantium aliarumque eo facientium tum et radicum convoluulorum ac deleteriarum herbarum historiae libri IIII, 1574.
- cp012046: De sphaera sive de astronomiae et geographiae principiis cosmographica isagoge. Leiden, 1584.
- cp013531: De sphaera sive de astronomiae et geographiae principiis cosmographica isagoge. Antwerp, 1584.
- cp010031: Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, 1583.