The Family and Origin of Joachim Meyer

SoCal Swordfight 2025 Lecture on Meyer's family and hometown.

This lecture was delivered at SoCal Swordfight on March 14th, 2025. It covers the evidence at time of recording that connects Joachim Meyer to his mother, father, and siblings, and expands on the connections between the Meyer family, their neighborhood in Basel, and the papermaking professions of St. Alban-Vorstadt.

Use the chapter timestamps to jump between large sections. Full transcriptions, translations, links to and/or images of the cited sources are available in the open-source Meyer Family Collection research document.

Thank you to Miriam for her support, assistance, proof reading, and overall amazing help in creating this lecture. Additional thanks to SoCal Swordfight for having me as an instructor, and all the great attendees who made the talk so much fun!