See also:

• RITTER, HEINRICH (1791-1869)
• RITTER, KARL (1779–1859)

RITTER VON JOHANN GEORG See also:

• RITTER VON JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN

ZIMMERMANN  (1728- 1795), Swiss philosophical writer and physician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Brugg, in the See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• AARGAU (Fr. Argovie)

Aargau, on the 8th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1728 . He studied at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, where he took the degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine; and he established his reputation by the dissertation, De irritabilitate (1751) . After travelling in See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, he practised as a physician in his native See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, and here he wrote Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Einsamkeit (1756, emended and enlarged, 1784–85) and Vom Nationalstolz (1758) . These books made a See also:

• GREAT

great impression ip See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and were translated into almost every See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language . They are now only of See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• INTEREST

interest . In See also:

• ZIMMERMANN, JOHANN GEORG, RITTER VON

Zimmermann's See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character there was a See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of sentimentalism, See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy and See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm; and it was by the See also:

• FREE

free and See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric expression of these qualities that he excited the interest of his contemporaries . Another See also:

• BOOK

book by him, written at Brugg, Von der Erfahrung in der Arzneiwissenschaft (1764), also attracted much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . In 1768 he settled at See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover as private physician of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George III. with the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Hofrat . See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine II. invited him to the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, but this invitation he declined . He attended See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick the Great during that monarch's last illness, and afterwards issued various books about him, of which the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief were Uber Friederich den Grossen and meine Unterredung mit ihm See also:

• KURZ, HERMANN (1813—1873)

kurz vor seinem Tode (1788) and Fragmente caber See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Friedrich den Grossen (1790) . These writings display extraordinary 1 [In 1909 See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall published another See also:

• VOLUME

volume, Prehistoric See also:

• RHODESIA (so named after Cecil Rhodes)

Rhodesia, in which•he maintained, in emphatic opposition to Dr Maclver's conclusions, that the ruins were of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient date and not the unaided See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• BANTU

Bantu negroes . See the See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review by See also:

• SIR

Sir Harry See also:

• JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY (1803–1862)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (1804-1871)
• JOHNSTON, ARTHUR (1587-1641)
• JOHNSTON, J
• JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON (1807-1891)
• JOHNSTON, SIR HENRY HAMILTON (1858- )

Johnston in the Geog .

Jnl., Nov . Igoo . ED.1.981 See also:

• PERSONAL

personal vanity, and convey a wholly false impression of Frederick's character . Zimmermann died at Hanover on the 7th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1795 . See A . Rengger, Zimmermann's Briefe an einige seiner Freunde in der Schweiz (1830); E . Bodemann, Johann Georg Zimmermann, sein Leben and bisher ungedruckte Briefe an ihn (Hann., 1878) ; and R . Ischer, Johann Georg Zimmermann's Leben and Werke (Berne, 1893) .