YEAR

1755
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN BORN IN MEISSEN (SAXONY), ON
APRIL 10

1767-1770 THE YOUNG SAMUEL HAHNEMANN ATTENDS THE GRAMMAR

SCHOOL IN MEISSEN

HE ATTENDS THE MEISSEN PRINCE'S SCHOOL OF ST. AFRA

1770-1775
1775-1776 STUDY OF MEDICINE AT LEIPZIG

1777 STUDIES FOR ONE SEMESTER AT VIENNA UNIVERSITY,

FOLLOWED BY ASSISTANTSHIP UNDER JOSEPH QUARIN

1777-1779
PRIVATE PHYSICIAN AND LIBRARIAN

1779
HAHNEMANN COMPLETES HIS MEDICAL STUDIES AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN IN FRANCONIA

1780
HAHNEMANN SETTLES DOWN AND SETS UP FOR THE FIRST
TIME

A PRACTICE IN HETTSTEDT (SAXONY) AS A PHYSICIAN

1781 PRACTICAL PHARMACEUTICAL TRAINING AT THE "MOHREN-

APOTHEKE" IN DESSAU

1782 MARRIAGE TO HENRIETTE KUCHLER, ELEVEN CHILDREN

ISSUED FROM THIS UNION
HAHNEMANN ACCEPTS A PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE AT
GOMMERN (SAXONY)

STAY AT DRESDEN, PRINCIPALLY FOR WORK IN THE MEDICAL/

1784 CHEMICAL FIELD: FIRST INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION,
ENTITLED "DIRECTIONS FOR THE COMPLETE CURE OF OLD
WOUNDS AND INDOLENT ULCERS"

1786 PUBLICATION "ON ARSENIC POISONING"

1789 REMOVAL TO LEIPZIG

1790 HAHNEMANN TRANSLATES CULLEN'S 'MATERIA MEDICA"

FROM THE ENGLISH ORIGINAL
 TRIALS WITH CINCHONA BY SELF-EXPERIMENTATION AS A
RESULT, HAHNEMANN INITIATES A SERIES OF TRIALS ON
DIFFERENT DRUGS

1793-1799
PUBLICATION OF THE "APOTHEKER - LEXIKON " (DRUG INDEX
AND HANDBOOK FOR APOTHECARIES)

1793-1801 HAHNEMANN MOVES SUCCESSIVELY THROUGH VARIOUS

GERMAN TOWNS, INCLUDING GOTTINGEN, BRUNSWICK,
WOLFENBUTTEL,
(SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURENTUR) IN AN ESSAY IN HUFELAND’S
JOURNAL ENTITLED “ESSAY ON A NEW PRINCIPLE FOR
ASCERTATINING THE CURATIVE POWER OF DRUGS”