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JOACHIM CAMERARIUS (1500-1574)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 108 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOACHIM See also:CAMERARIUS (1500-1574)  , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Bamberg on the 12th of See also:April 1500 . His See also:family name was Liebhard, but he was generally called Kammermeister, previous members of his family having held the See also:office of See also:chamberlain (See also:camerarius) to the bishops of Bamberg . He studied at See also:Leipzig, See also:Erfurt and See also:Wittenberg, where he became intimate with See also:Melanchthon . For some years he was teacher of See also:history and See also:Greek at the gymnasium, See also:Nuremberg . In 1530 he was sent as See also:deputy for Nuremberg to the See also:diet of See also:Augsburg, where he rendered important assistance to Melanchthon in See also:drawing up the See also:Confession of Augsburg . Five years later he was commissioned by See also:Duke See also:Ulrich of See also:Wurttemberg to reorganize the university of See also:Tubingen; and in 1541 he rendered a similar service at Leipzig, where the See also:remainder of his See also:life was chiefly spent . He translated into Latin See also:Herodotus, See also:Demosthenes, See also:Xenophon, See also:Homer, See also:Theocritus, See also:Sophocles, See also:Lucian, Theodoretus, Nicephorus and other Greek writers . He published upwards of 150 See also:works, including a See also:Catalogue of the Bishops of the See also:Principal See also:Sees; Greek Epistles; Accounts of his Journeys, in Latin See also:verse; a Commentary on See also:Plautus; a See also:treatise on See also:Numismatics; See also:Euclid in Latin; and the Lives of Helius Eobanus See also:Hessus, See also:George of See also:Anhalt and See also:Philip Melanchthon . His Epistolae Familiares (published after his See also:death) are a valuable contribution to the history of his See also:time . He played an important See also:part in the Re-formation See also:movement, and his See also:advice was frequently sought by leading men . In 1535 he entered into a See also:correspondence with See also:Francis I. as to the possibility of a reconciliation between the See also:Catholic and See also:Protestant See also:creeds; and in 1568 See also:Maximilian II. sent for him to See also:Vienna to consult him on the same subject . He died at Leipzig on the 17th of April 1574 .

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article by A . Horawitz in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; C . See also:Bursian, See also:Die Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); J . E . See also:Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol . (ed . 1908), ii . 266 .

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