Joachim Camerarius the Younger
Appearance
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Joachim Camerarius the Younger (German "Kammermeister") (6 November 1534 – 11 October 1598, Nuremberg) was a German physician, botanist, zoologist and humanist scholar.
Life
He was born in
Konrad Gessner
.
Works
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Though trained in the strict
Dioscorides
(Kreutterbuch, Frankfurt/M., 1586, etc.).
List
- Camerarius, Joachim (1588), Hortus medicus et philosophicus in quo plurimorum stirpium brevis descriptio. Frankfurt: S. Feyerabend, H. Dack, & P. Fischer
References
- Melchior Adam, Vitae Germanorum Medicorum. Heidelberg, 1620, pp. 344–345.
- Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1983 ff.
- Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke, “Camerarius d. J., Joachim,” in Literaturlexikon, ed. W. Killy, vol. 2, pp. 350–359.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.