Bratislava

1645

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.

1647年4月2日

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.