The Lavater brothers were Johann Heinrich Lavater (baptised 21 February 1611 – 9 June 1691) and Johann Jacob Lavater (1594–1636), both Swiss physicians and naturalists.
Biography
Johann Heinrich Lavater was a professor at the
Carolinum, Zürich, here shown in front of the Grossmünster.
Sepia drawing by Emil Schulhess, 1835
The brothers were the sons of Heinrich Lavater, also a physician, and a professor of physics and mathematics in
Zürich.[1][2]
Johann Heinrich gained his doctorate in
Basel in 1647,[3] and became a physician in
Bern in 1653. In 1668 he prepared the Zürich Ordinance about
plague.[4] He became professor of medicine and natural history at the
Carolinum, Zürich.[1]
Little is known of Johann Jacob, except that he too was a physician and a naturalist.[1]
^Mörgeli, Christoph. "Lavater, Heinrich". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German).
^"Works of Lavater, Johann Heinrich" (in German). Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (database). Retrieved 12 October 2017.
^Lavater, Johann Heinrich (1668). Neue Pestordnung der Statt Zürich: samt einem kurzen Bericht, wie man sich mit Gottes hülffe vor diser Krankheit bewahren, und dieselbige heilen sölle (in German). Zürich.