Zimmermann
JOHANN GEORG miscellaneous writer; born in Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland, Dec. 8, 1728. At ZIMMERN the University of Göttingen he studied under and was befriended by Haller, and eventually was appointed_public physician to his native town. He became famous in his profession, and published several works on miscellaneous subjects, with one on "Experiences in Medicine," which procured him the appointment of physician for Hanover to George III.
The loss of his wife and other domestic calamities brought on an attack of hypochondria, from which a second marriage relieved him, and as a result of his recovery he produced his once celebrated treatise on "Solitude" (1784), by which out of his own country he is alone remembered. In 1786 he attended Fred erick the Great in his last illness, about whom he published two works, one of them "Conversations with the King," which involved him in painful controversy. Latterly he became deranged, and died in Hanover, Oct. 7, 1795. His "Autobiography" was issued in 1791.