> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 541](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066881) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12038-1) LSID 12038-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115878) QID Q115878 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Zimmermann, Johann Georg von (1728-1795), Swiss physician and botanist; studied medicine in Göttingen and Bern; practicing physician; royal physician at Hannover 1768, later also in St. Petersburg and Potsdam, at the same time writer on political, social and philosophical issues. **Abbreviated name**: *J.G. Zimmerm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.G.Zimm.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 54: 273-277; Barnhart 3: 541 (b. 8 Dec 1728, d. 7 Oct 1795); Bossert p. 450; PR 10500, ed. 1: 11455; Rehder 1: 291; SO 267. #### Biofile - Anon., Appleton's Cycl. Biog. 1053. 1856; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 263: 591-596. 1966; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 231: 82-91. 1981. - Arnim, M., Mitgl.-Vers. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen (1751-1927): 186. 1928. - Bouvier, A., J.G. Zimmermann, Genève 1925, viii, 209 p. and in E. Fueter, Grosse schweiz. Forsch. ed. 2. 154-155. 1941. - Ischer, R., J.G. Zimmermann's Leben und Werke, Bern 1893, 550 p. - Saucerotte, C., *in* Hoefer, Nouv. biogr. gén. 46: 994-997. 1866. - Stricker, W., *in*.A. Hirsch et al., Biogr. Lex. hervorrag. Ärzte ed. 3. 4: 1042-1043. 1962. - Treue, W., Doctor at court 69-83. 1958. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 147. 1903. - Zimmermann, J.G. v., Lebensbeschreibung, Hannover 1791. ### Publications ##### n.18.680. Dubia ex **Title** *Dubia ex* clarissimi Caroli *Linnaei Fundamenta botanicis* hausta tradere pergit simulque... Johanni Georgio Zimmermanno... medicino candidato eximio ac solertissimo de honoribus medicus summis gratulatur Theophilus Emanuel v. Haller... Goettingae (Typis Jo. Christ. Ludolph Schultzii Acad. Typ.) 1751. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Dubia Linn. Fund. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1751. *Copy*: G. – See TL-2/2318. – T.E. v. Haller may be the original author.