Philipp Camerarius

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Philipp Camerarius (engraving by Johann Friedrich Fleischberger)

Philipp Camerarius (born on May 16, 1537 in Tübingen ; died on June 23, 1624 in Nuremberg ) was a German legal scholar and polyhistor .

Life

Camerarius was the son of the important humanist Joachim Camerarius the Elder and brother of the physician, naturalist and polyhistor Joachim Camerarius the Younger . First taught by his father in Latin and Greek, he attended the Saxon state schools in Pforta and Meißen , where Georg Fabricius was his teacher. After a period in Leipzig he studied in Tübingen from 1559 and in Strasbourg from 1560 to 1562 . From 1563 to 1565 he went on an educational trip through Italy, where he was detained by the Inquisition for two months in Rome in 1565 , threatened with execution and allegedly only released again with his travel companion Peter Rieter following the intervention of several German envoys. This process caused a stir and Camerarius wrote a report on his imprisonment, which was handwritten and was not printed until 1740. In 1569 Camerarius obtained his doctorate in law under Kaspar Herwagen in Basel and settled in Nuremberg. There he married Helena, daughter of the patrician Martin Pfinzing , on February 26, 1571 , from which 7 daughters and one son were to emerge. At the beginning of 1573, Camerarius received a position as a council consultant, i.e. as an advisor to the Nuremberg Council in legal matters. In 1581 he became the first procurator of the newly founded University of Altdorf and held this position until his death. He took part in literary life through academic speeches, extensive correspondence, and his brother's support in editing her father's works.

He is of literary importance through his work Operae Horarum Subcisivarum, Sive Meditationes Historicae , which has appeared several times expanded, has numerous editions and has been translated into the most important European languages ​​and has become an international success as a "portable library". Camerarius mixes various elements, including his own experiences and parts of his university speeches, into an entertaining and instructive whole , in the manner of ancient colored writers and polyhistorians such as Aulus Gellius and Athenaios . Camerarius offers a series of essays, essentially arranged according to landscape aspects, which are created through a stimulating mixture of exempla from historia civilis and historia naturalis , i.e. examples from history, politics, regional and natural history, drawn from the academic and non-academic knowledge of the past and the present, provides a compressed extract of various sources and authors for readers to whom these sources or authors were not available or who did not have time to read them themselves. It can thus be regarded as a stimulus and forerunner of an analogue literature that began soon after it, with authors particularly from the southern German cities ( Martin Zeiller , Erasmus Francisci and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer ). The work was placed on the index by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1600 .

Fonts

Historical pleasure garden (title page)
  • Operae Horarum Subcisivarum, Sive Meditationes Historicae: Continentes accuratum delectum memorabilium Historiarum, et rerum tam veterum, quam recentium singulari studio inuicem collatarum, quae omnia lectoribus et uberem admodum fructum, et liberalem pariter oblectationem affere poterunt. Nuremberg 1591. Extended editions 1599, Frankfurt a. M. 1602-1609 and more often. Translations:

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literature

  • Wilhelm Kühlmann : Camerarius, Philipp. In: Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 342.
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann:: Camerarius, Philipp. In: Author's Lexicon - Early Modern Times in Germany 1520-1620. Vol. 1. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2011.
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann: Polyhistory Beyond Systems. On the functional pragmatics and journalistic typology of early modern colored writing. In: Developing and storing knowledge in the early modern period. Forms and functions. Edited by Frank Grunert and Anette Syndikus. Berlin 2007.
  • Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Camerarius, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 726.
  • Harold Jantz: The Renaissance Essays of Philipp Camerarius. In: Festschrift Hans-Gert Roloff. Bern 1983, pp. 315–327.
  • Emilio Bonfatti: ›Noctes noricae‹. Joachim Camerarius the Elder J. and Guido Pancirollis Raccolta Breve (1599). In: Nuremberg and Italy. Encounters, influences and ideas. Ed. Volker Kapp and Frank-Rutger Hausmann. Tübingen 1991, pp. 195-211.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Camerarius  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Relatio vera et solida de captivitate Romana University Library Tübingen , Mc 162 (copy of the 18th century). Printed in: Schelhorn: De vita, fatis ac meritis Philippi Camerarii. Nuremberg 1740.
  2. ↑ Camerarius (Chamber Master), Philipp. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 184 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Camerarius, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and polyhistor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1624
Place of death Nuremberg