German physician in Nuremburg and son of humanist and philologist of the same name. Joachim Camerarius the younger was born in Nuremburg and began his studies in Germany before moving to Italy. Here he continued his education at the universities of Padua and Bologna, from the latter of which he received his doctorate in 1562. Camerarius published several early botanical works such as Opuscula de re Rustica (1577) and Hortus medicus et philosophicus (1588). The same year he brought out an Icones praecipuarum stirpium with fantastic illustrations of plant varieties. Camerarius also purchased the famous library of K. Gesner.

Sources:
W. Junk, 1926, Portraits of old Botanists.