HAHNEMAN N, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SAMUEL (ha'ne-man), the founder of HOMEOPATHY (q. v.); born in Meissen, Saxony, April 10, 1755. He entered the University of Leipsic at the age of 20; from Leipsic he proceeded to Vienna for clinical study; he then passed two years as physician and librarian to a nobleman residing in Tran sylvania; after which he entered and, in 1779, graduated at the University of Erlangen. During the following 10 years he practiced medicine and held sev eral public appointments in Dresden and elsewhere, and then settled in a small village near Leipsic. His observation and practice had convinced him, not only with vehement opposition. Apothecaries refused to dispense his prescriptions, and he was forced to give his medicine to his patients free of charge. This was an infringement of the privileges which German law had conferred on the apothe caries, and hence he was prosecuted in every town in which he attempted to settle from 1798 till 1810, when he re turned to Leipsic. Two years afterward
he was appointed a privat-docent of the university. At Leipsic he remained till 1821, when a successful prosecution by the apothecaries drove him from the city. Under the protection of the Duke of Anhalt-Kothen he retired to Kothen, where he became a center of attraction to numerous invalids in all parts of the world. He became known as one of the earliest advocates of hygiene. His book entitled "The Friend of Health" (1792) proves him to have been far in advance of his time in preventive medicine, Equally so was he in the treatment of the insane. He was also the author of sev eral valuable papers on chemistry. He died in Paris, July 2, 1843. A statue of him was erected in Leipsic in 1851.