Derweil im Leben von Matthäus Merian
Das ganze Leben1645
His wife Maria Magdalena de Bry dies
Maria Magdalena de Bry, Merian’s wife since 1617, dies.
1646
Marries Johanna Sibylla Heim
A year after his first wife’s death he marries Johanna Sibylla Heim.
1647
Birth of his daughter Anna Maria Sibylla
His daughter Anna Maria Sibylla is born, later a pioneering naturalist and illustrator; she will take up the tradition of natural-history illustration to which Merian’s own engravings for John Jonston’s encyclopaedic work on natural history belong.
2. April 1647
Daughter born: Maria Sibylla Merian
19 June 1650
Death in Langenschwalbach
After several years of illness he dies in Langenschwalbach, near Wiesbaden, leaving his widow with two small children: his daughter Anna Maria Sibylla (born 1647) and a son, Maximilian, who died before his third birthday.
