Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Quotes
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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| Birth: | 8th December, 1728 |
| Death: | 7th October, 1795 |
| Nationality: | Swiss |
| Profession: | Physician, Writer |
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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann was born in Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland. He was a Swiss philosophical writer and physician. He studied at the University of Göttingen, where he took the degree of a doctor of medicine. After traveling in the Netherlands and France, he practised as a physician in Brugg, and wrote Über die Einsamkeit and Vom Nationalstolz. Another book by him, written at Brugg, Von der Erfahrung in der Arzneiwissenschaft, also attracted much attention. In 1768, he settled at Hanover as private physician of George III with the title of a Hofrat.
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