Tag: Théodore Tronchin
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Famous physicians from Geneva, Switzerland
Avi OhryTel Aviv, Israel Geneva, Switzerland is associated with many famous physicians and scientists. Some have been memorialized in street names, buildings, and institutions. Michael Servetus (ca. 1511–1553), a physician and theologian who lived most of his life in France,1 fled to Geneva after being condemned by Catholic authorities in France for the publication of…
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Théodore Tronchin
Annabelle SlingerlandLeiden, Netherlands Life in eighteenth-century Geneva was idyllic in many ways. The religious wars had ended, epidemics were still far away, infant mortality was on the decline, Protestant immigrants were arriving, and money flowed into the city faster than the Rhône River. The city walls no longer seemed needed, yet still were there. The…