CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM German clas sical scholar, was born at Bamberg on April 12, 1500. In 153o he was sent as deputy for Nuremberg to the diet of Augsburg, where he helped 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 he died on April He played an important part in the Reformation movement, and his advice was sought by leading men. In 1535 he corresponded 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 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 Numis matics; 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 contri bution to the history of his time.