Pride on a peacock
7th January 2016
Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728–1795) was a Swiss doctor who, in 1758, was appointed ‘His Britannic Majesty’s Physician’ at Hanover. He was also a writer, best known for his works of popular philosophy, which made a great impression in the German-speaking world and which were widely translated. One of these, Von dem Nationalstolze, written during the Seven Years War […]
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