. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). n of the latterhe was made Professor of Humanity in the newly-founded University of Niirnberg. From that seat 79 Bezas Portraits of Reformers of learning he passed to Tubingen, and from that tothe university of his student days, Leipzig, wherehe ultimately became Rector, and where he died inApril, 1574. Although he attended several of the Diets andConferences of such frequent occurrence in thesixteenth century, Cam
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). n of the latterhe was made Professor of Humanity in the newly-founded University of Niirnberg. From that seat 79 Bezas Portraits of Reformers of learning he passed to Tubingen, and from that tothe university of his student days, Leipzig, wherehe ultimately became Rector, and where he died inApril, 1574. Although he attended several of the Diets andConferences of such frequent occurrence in thesixteenth century, Camerarius was more a man ofstudy than of action, of literature than of favourite occupation was that of translatinginto Latin such Greek authors as Homer,Herodotus, and Xenophon, Demosthenes, andSophocles, Euclid, Lucian, and Theocritus. Thecontribution of the accomplished humanist to eccle-siastical literature is not large, but it is of consider-able value. In 1566 he published a Narrative ofthe Life of Philip Melanchthon^ and at a later date aCollection of the Letters of that Reformer. Thetwo works go to constitute a reliable history of theReformation in 80
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