Article: Muralt, Johannes von

MURALT, JOHANNES VON

( b . Z ü rich, Switzerland, 18 February 1645; d . Z ü rich, 12 January 1733)

Surgery, medicine, anatomy .

Muralt was a member of the old noble de Muralto family, which had been driven from its seat in Locarno in 1555 upon its conversion to Protestantism. The refugees were eventually invested with citizenship in the Reformed Swiss cities of Bern and Z ü rich, and found new prosperity. Some of Muralt s ancestors were physicians and diplomats; his father, Johann Melchior Muralt, was a merchant.

Muralt was educated at the Z ü rich Carolinum. When he was twenty he published his Schola mutorum ac surdorum , then set out on his academic travels, which took ...

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