Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr.

Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr.
Camerarius c. 1690
Born	May 7, 1641 Tübingen
Died	June 7, 1695 Tübingen
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Tübingen
Scientific career
Fields	Physician
Institutions	University of Tübingen
Doctoral advisor	Georg Balthasar Metzger
Doctoral students	Rudolf Jakob Camerarius

Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr. (1641–1695) was a professor of medicine who notably wrote books on the palpitations of the heart, pleurisy, skull fractures, and the use of medicinal plants.

He obtained his Doctor of Medicine in 1663 at the University of Tübingen. He is the father of Elias Rudolph Camerarius Jr. and Rudolf Jakob Camerarius.

References

• Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr. at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Duncker & Humblot, 1967-1971 Reprint, vol. 3, p. 719.
• Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, vol. 1, p. 808.
• Michaud Biographie Universelle, (2nd Ed.), Delagrabe, 1843–1865, vol. 6, p. 474.