JOACHIM

See also:

• JOACHIM CAMERARIUS (1500-1574)
• CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM (1534-1598)
• CAMERARIUS, RUDOLF JAKOB (1665–1721)

CAMERARIUS (1500-1574)  , German classical scholar, was born at Bamberg on the 12th of April 1500 . His family name was Liebhard, but he was generally called Kammermeister, previous members of his family having held the office of chamberlain (camerarius) to the bishops of Bamberg . He studied at Leipzig, Erfurt and Wittenberg, where he became intimate with Melanchthon . For some years he was teacher of history and Greek at the gymnasium, Nuremberg . In 1530 he was sent as deputy for Nuremberg to the diet of Augsburg, where he rendered important assistance to Melanchthon in drawing up the Confession of Augsburg . Five years later he was commissioned by Duke Ulrich of Wurttemberg to reorganize the university of Tubingen; and in 1541 he rendered a similar service at Leipzig, where the remainder of his life was chiefly spent . He translated into Latin Herodotus, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Homer, Theocritus, Sophocles, Lucian, Theodoretus, Nicephorus and other Greek writers . He published upwards of 150 works, including a Catalogue of the Bishops of the Principal Sees; Greek Epistles; Accounts of his Journeys, in Latin verse; a Commentary on Plautus; a treatise on Numismatics; Euclid in Latin; and the Lives of Helius Eobanus Hessus, George of Anhalt and Philip Melanchthon . His Epistolae Familiares (published after his death) are a valuable contribution to the history of his time . He played an important part in the Re-formation movement, and his advice was frequently sought by leading men . In 1535 he entered into a correspondence with Francis I. as to the possibility of a reconciliation between the Catholic and Protestant creeds; and in 1568 Maximilian II. sent for him to 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 . Bursian, Die Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883); J . E . Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol . (ed . 1908), ii . 266 .