Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Johann Georg Zimmermann is a Médecin Suisse, born the October 8th 1728 with Brugg and dead the October 7th 1795 with Hanover.

It makes its studies with Göttingen and is the pupil of Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777). It obtains its doctorate in 1755 with a thesis entitled Disseration of irritabilitate .

Zimmermann travels then to the Netherlands and in France where, in Paris, he becomes the friend of Jean-Baptiste Sénac (1693-1770), doctor of the king Louis XV.

Of return to Bern, it makes appear a biography To haul under the title of Leben of Herrn von Haller (Zurich, 1755). Then, it returns in Brugg where he becomes doctor of the city.

It then starts to work on its work which was going to return it celebrates, Betrachtungen über die Einsamkeit whose first version appears with Zurich in 1756.

This work, that Zimmermann will enrich during thirty years, will be republished many times, in particular in Paris thanks to two different translations.

It is also necessary to quote its study of the Dysenterie Von DER the Ruhr unter dem Volke im Jahre 1765 (Zurich, 1767, translated into French in 1775).

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