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Von Haller died at Berne on December 12, 1777.

Johann Georg Zimmermann was born in 1728 at Brugg in the Canton de Berne, Switzerland. Left an orphan at the age of eighteen, and obliged without aid from outside to choose the career which he would follow, he decided to study medicine; and with this object in view he went to Goettingen, Germany, where he was received into the family of Albrecht von Haller, who was at that time a professor in the university. Five years later (1751), when he took his doctor’s degree, he chose for the subject of his thesis, at von Haller’s suggestion, the doctrine of irritability. Upon his return to Berne in 1752, he began the practice of medicine and shortly afterward accepted the position of official physician for his native town of Brugg. It was during this period of his life that he wrote those treatises which made his name famous throughout Germany, viz., “On Solitude,” Zuerich, 1756; “On Experience in the Practice of Medicine,” Zuerich, 1763 and 1767; “On National Pride,” Zuerich, 1768 (5th edition); and “On the Epidemic of Dysentery which prevailed during the year 1765,” Zuerich, 1767 (later edition in 1789).