Johann Heinrich Lavater

Johann Heinrich Lavater (baptized February 21, 1611 in Zurich ; † June 9, 1691 ibid) was a Swiss doctor and professor of natural history .

Life

After his training, Lavater worked as a military doctor during the siege of Breda (1637). 1647 he was in Basel with a dissertation on the Arthritis Doctor of Medicine doctorate . In 1653 he was a city doctor in Bern and later in Zurich . There he wrote a new plague order for the city of Zurich on the instructions of the city council . At the Collegium Carolinum , the famous Zurich high school, he taught medicine and natural history as a professor. There he was the teacher of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer and Johannes von Muralt .

The extensive Swiss Lavater family produced many scholars, including several doctors with the first name Johann Heinrich . Mistakes are therefore common.

Works

Disputatio de arthritide . Basel 1647.
New plague order of the Statt Zürich: including a short report on how one can protect oneself from this disease with God's help, and how it can be cured . Zurich, 1668.

Dedication names

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the plant genus Lavatera from the mallow family in honor of Johann Heinrich Lavater . Linnaeus adopted this generic name.

literature

Christoph Mörgeli : Lavater, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

Publications by and about Johann Heinrich Lavater in VD 17 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lavater, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss doctor and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized February 21, 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1691
Place of death	Zurich

[Burkhardt2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]