Joachim Feller studied theology and philology in Leipzig.
In 1670 he married Anna Dorothea Rappolt (1653-1676), daughter of the rector of the University of Leipzig.
The marriage produced four children, of which one daughter married the mayor of Leipzig (for a long time).
His son Joachim Friedrich Feller (1673-1726) became a pupil and collaborator of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Feller died in 1691 after a window fall caused by somnambulie in Leipzig.