Thomas Platter the Younger (c. 24 July 1574 – 4 December 1628) was a Swiss-born physician, traveller and diarist, the son of the humanist Thomas Platter

Thomas Platter

Thomas Platter was a Swiss humanist scholar and writer.His sons Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger both studied medicine, a thwarted ambition of Platter's own early life...

 the Elder.

The foremost record of Platter's life is the journal he kept, written in German, between around 1595 and 1600. It details his life as a medical student in Montpellier

Montpellier

-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....

 and his later travels in France, Spain, Flanders, and England. The diary supplies detail on many aspects of late sixteenth century European culture: medical education (including dissection

Dissection

Dissection is usually the process of disassembling and observing something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to discerning the functions and relationships of its components....

s), street and carnival life in Barcelona, European theatre, and the practicalities of the slave trade.

Perhaps the most studied section of Platter's diary is his account of a 1599 trip to London with his older half-brother, Felix Platter, including a visit on 21 September, "at about two o'clock", to the Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...

. Platter saw an early production of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...

: his account provides Shakespeare scholars with evidence for the dating of that play..