Johann Gottfried Zinn practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Johann Gottfried Zinn as botanist and physician (1727-1759).
Johann Gottfried Zinn was born at Schwabach in 1727. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Göttingen.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at University of Göttingen.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and botany.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johann Gottfried Zinn died in 1759, aged 32. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Göttingen
- Fields: medicine and botany
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