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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

1672 - 1733

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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733) was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the Physica sacra in four volumes, which was a commentary on the Bible and included his view of the world, demonstrating a convergence of science and religion. It was richly illustrated with copperplate etchings and came to be called the Kupfer-Bibel or "Copper Bible". Scheuchzer supported Biblical creation, but his support for Copernican heliocentrism forced him to print his works outside Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer is the 400th most popular physician (down from 393rd in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 291st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 400 out of 726. Before him are Johann Lukas Schönlein, Kusumoto Ine, Hélène Sparrow, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Ibn Abi Usaibia, and Scribonius Largus. After him are Anders Chydenius, Adolph Kolping, Antoine Louis, Abella, José Gregorio Hernández, and Jim Yong Kim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 6. Before him are Peter the Great, Joseph Addison, Pylyp Orlyk, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Ludovico Antonio Muratori. After him are Nicolas de Grigny, André Cardinal Destouches, Zhang Tingyu, Richard Steele, and Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1733, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 11. Before him are Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Pieter van der Aa, Nicolas Coustou, Robert de Visée, and Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg. After him are John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Bernard Picart, Jakob Hermann, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 303 out of 1,015. Before him are Julius Maggi (1846), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Carl Meissner (1800), Flavio Cotti (1939), and Vincent Perez (1964). After him are Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), Georges Cottier (1922), Domenico Trezzini (1670), Luigi Taveri (1929), Adolf Wölfli (1864), and Felix Manz (1498).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ranks 11. Before him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Albrecht von Haller (1708), and Friedrich Miescher (1844). After him are Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), Thomas Erastus (1524), Paolo Macchiarini (1958), and Adolf Meyer (1866).

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