Friedrich Zwinger

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Friedrich Zwinger , Swiss doctor, brother of Johann Rudolf Zwinger, was born with Basle, the August 11th 1707.

Having completed its humanities and its philosophy successfully, it applied, by the council of its father, being studied of ia jurisprudence. But impassioned for the natural science, it cultivated them in secrecy, and the death of his/her main father having left it follow its inclination, it delivered all entirety with medicine. Its progress was so fast that after one year of frequency, it was accepted laid off; it went to continue its courses with Heidelberg, then with Leyde, where Boerhaave and Albinus filled it testimonys of friendship, and finally with Paris, where it especially stuck to improve in the anatomy. Of return to Basle, in 1731, it took the rank of doctor there and was not long in making known itself like a very skilful expert. He contributed vainly, in 1737, for the pulpit of history and, in 1741, for that of eloquence; but this double failure did not harm its reputation.

Honore of the benevolence of the Marquis de Bade-Dourlach, this prince, in called close to him and appointed it its first doctor. He made profitable his leisures to prepare a new edition of the Theatrum botanicum of his father, and he enriches it by the description of the rarest plants of the beautiful gardens of Dourlach. He was finally named professor of anatomy and with botany to the academy of Bâl, in 1751, and as of the following year, he was provided with the theoretical pulpit of medicine. Covered several times of the dignity of senior of faculty, he was elected three times vice-chancellor of the academy and died the 1776, regretted its fellow-members; one of them composed an epitaph in Greek worms to him, inserted in the Athenœ rauricœ .

In addition to the edition of the Theatr. botanicum , about which one spoke, Friedrich gave one of the atque Medicus scians of them celeries , another work of his/her father, become rare, and that it enriches, like the first, of several interesting additions. Independently of some theses, there are of him observations relating to medicine and the natural history, in the Acta helvetica physico-medica . (See the Athenœ rauricœ , p. 229-231.).

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