Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German scholar
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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus
- Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus (11 November 1729, Hamburg - 6 June 1814, Rantzau, Holstein) was a German physician, natural historian and economist.
- He was the son of Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the brother of the writer Elise Reimarus and the father (by his first marriage) of Johanna Reimarius, who married Georg Heinrich Sieveking.
- He married twice, the second time to Sophia, sister of August Adolph von Hennings. In 1755 he visited London and studied under the anatomists William Hunter and James Douglas.
- His achievements include introducing smallpox vaccination to Hamburg and introducing continental Europe to the British-born idea of the lightning rod.
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