Joachim Camerarius the Younger [SEP] place of death
Joachim Camerarius the Younger
Joachim Camerarius the Younger (German "Kammermeister") (November 6, 1534 – October 11, 1598, Nuremberg) was a German physician, botanist, zoologist and humanist scholar.
Life.
He was born in Nuremberg, the son of the famed humanist Joachim Camerarius the elder (1500–1574). The younger Camerarius’s association with the luminaries of later sixteenth-century German intelligentsia was secured by his father’s network of influential friends—including Philip Melanchthon and Johannes Crato von Krafftheim. After
's colleague, Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598), a physician and botanist. Upon Camerarius' death in 1598, Besler had the remainder of Camerarius' plants moved to Eichstätt and carried on the work of planting and supervision. The bishop commissioned Besler to compile a codex of the plants growing in his garden, a task which Besler took sixteen years to complete, the bishop dying shortly before the work was published.
The gardens were sacked by invading Swedish troops under in 1633-4; following "Hortus Eystettensis"