Jean Hermann

See also: Hermann (homonymy)

Jean Hermann is a Médecin and a Naturaliste French, born the December 31st 1738 with Barr in Alsace and dead the October 4th 1800 with Strasbourg.

Wire of Pasteur Lutheran, it obtains his title of doctor in Médecine at the university of Strasbourg the May 13rd 1762 with a thesis entitled Cardamomi historiam and vindicias . After having creates, in 1764, a private course of Natural history, it is named, in 1769, extraordinary professor of medicine at the school of public health of Strasbourg, then, in 1778, professor of philosophy and, finally, it succeeds Jacob Reinholf Spielmann (1722-1783) with the pulpit of Natural history and medical matter. In 1796, he becomes professor of Botanique and medical matter at the new Medical school.

Its collections and its library, rich person of 20.000 volumes, are at the origin of the natural history museum of natural history of the city. Hermann directs moreover his Botanical garden. This one is threatened of closing by the administration of the city during the Revolution, it owed its safety only with the obstinacy of Hermann who devotes all his fortune to him.

Its most important work appears in 1783 under the title of Tabula affinitatum animalium… cum annotationibus AD historiam naturalem animalium augendam facientibus . Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures is published in 1804 on a purely posthumous basis. Member many learned societies, it corresponds with many naturalists of which Johann David Schöpf (1752-1800) and Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742-1810).

His/her brother, Jean-Frederic Hermann (1743-1820), made a municipal career in Strasbourg. Mayor of 1800 to 1805, it was suspended because of his outspokenness towards the prefect Henri Shée.

His/her son, Jean-Frederic Hermann (1768-1793), was going to follow his trace so much in medicine than in natural history, when its untimely death put a term at its ambitions.

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External bond

  • Works of Hermann digitized by the SICD of the universities of Strasbourg

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