Joachim Camerarius the Younger
Joachim Camerarius the Younger ( born November 6, 1534 Nuremberg, † October 11, 1598 ) was a German physician, botanist and naturalist.
Life
The son of Joachim Camerarius the Elder attended high school Schulpforta. Next, he studied medicine at the University of Wittenberg, where one of his teachers was Philipp Melanchthon. He joined the University of Leipzig, came to Breslau, where he was in " Praxi medica " practiced under the guidance of Johann Crato of Krafftheim. On whose advice he then studied in Padua and received his doctorate on July 27, 1562 at the University of Bologna as a doctor of medicine.
Joachim Camerarius settled in 1564 as a doctor in Nuremberg, where he remained until his death. He sat down in Nuremberg for the reorganization of the medical system a. Due to its excitation was founded in 1592 in Nuremberg, the "Collegium medicum ", a kind of urban Medical Association, in which all the Nuremberg doctors banded together and chaired he took over. Camerarius was also a botanist who established the first scientifically parent botanical garden in Nuremberg.
After the death of Johannes Thal, he published his " Silva Hercynia ". He also added herbal book by Pietro Andrea Mattioli through their own descriptions as well as information that Conrad Gesner had left. His book " Camerarius Florilegium " was succeeded by his nephew Joachim Young Man (ca. 1561-1591 ), illustrated with 473 color drawings.
Taxonomic ceremony
Charles Plumier named in his honor the genus Cameraria the plant family of the dogbane family ( Apocynaceae ). Linnaeus later took the name.
Work
- Hortus Medicus et Philosophicus. Frankfurt am Main 1588th Digitized edition
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