Historical information and political notes on the French revolution. Volume three.

Historical information and political notes on the French revolution. Volume three.
Berlin: Dei Iohann Unger, 1793 428 p., 1 map. Hardcover of the epoch, embossed with gold, three-sided painted cut-off, format 13 x 19.5 cm.

Very good preservation, loss on the upper part of the spine, stamp of the library of Boizenburg (Elbe), Germany, block without loss.

[Gartner Christoph (b. 7.12.1760 in St. Gallen - mind 17.5.1800 in göttingen), FR.

He was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on December 7, 1760, the son of the banker Hieronymus Girtanner and his wife Barbara Felicitas.

He studied medicine in Strasbourg (1779) and in Gottingen (doctorate in 1782). until 1785, Gitanner practiced in St. Gallen, then went to the South of France and stayed in Paris, London, Edinburgh and Strasbourg. After settling in göttingen in 1787, he devoted himself to research and wrote extensively, including articles on chemistry and medicine, as well as collections of anti-revolutionary works.

Also spent several years in the United Kingdom and apparently owned a "salt factory near Edinburgh" (presumably in Joppa) in 1789. In 1790, he was elected a fellow of the Royal society of Edinburgh. The initiators of the election were Daniel Rutherford, Andrew Duncan and John Playfair.

After a second stay in Edinburgh (1789/1790), Girtanner introduced the medical system of the Scot John brown (1735/1736-1788) as his own in journal articles (1790), which earned him a reputation as a plagiarist.

This did not prevent him from publishing in 1796 a work on the history of the appearance of syphilis in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century (the antiquity of syphilis, 1796). at that time, discussions continued about whether the disease originated spontaneously in Europe or whether it was brought by the discovery of America.] u