Eliseus Bomelius

Eliseus Bomelius (also Licius) (died c. 1579) was a German physician and astrologer.

Early life The son of Henry Bomelius from Bommel in the Netherlands, from 1540 to 1559 Lutheran preacher at Wesel in Westphalia and friend of John Bale, he was said by his contemporaries to have been born at Wesel. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of doctor of medicine.

Bomelius was well received by English Protestant reformers, and contributed in Latin elegiacs to an edition of Thomas Becon's early works published in 1560. Henry Bennet of Calais praised James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy in 1561, praised Mountjoy for employing Bomelius as a humanist recommended by Philip Melanchthon. A little later Bomelius is said to have lived in the house of John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley. A recent editor of the work has cast doubt on the provenance, while leaving open the possibility that these recipes were traditional.