Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr (; 1800–1875) was a German-French physician and pioneer of classical homeopathy.

Biography

After studying in a Moravian college, about 1825 he got to know

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, whose assistant he became. On Hahnemann's recommendation, he went to the

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to get a medical education. After his graduation, he went to Liège to practice, but soon followed Hahnemann when the latter moved to Paris in 1835. He got his

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in Paris in 1840. He left Paris for

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on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. In Belgium, he first went to Liège, then to

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, and finally to Brussels. Without a Belgian diploma, he was not allowed to practice medicine in Belgium, and this restricted his income.

Works

Many of his numerous works have been published in both French and German, and translated into English by Charles Julius Hempel and others. Among them are treatises on the homeopathic treatment of cholera, of nervous and mental diseases, diseases of the skin, etc., and a ''Homœopathic Pharmacopœia''. *''G. H. G. Jahr's Manual of Homoeopathic Medicine'' (1836), translated by

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*''Jahr's New manual of Homoeopathic Practice'' (Vol 1, 1841) (Vol 2, 1842), 2nd American Edition, from the third Paris Edition *''Short Elementary Treatise upon Homoeopathia'' (1845) *''Manual of Homœopathic Medicine'' (1847), Volume 1: Materia Medica, Volume 2: Therapeutical & Symptomatological Repertory, translated and edited by Paul Francis Curie *''Jahr's New Manual'' (1848), Volumes 1-2, translated and edited by Charles Julius Hempel *''New Homœopathic Pharmacopæia & Posology'' (1850), by Charles Julius Hempel,

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, Gruner and Jahr *''Jahr's New Manual'' (1853), Volume 3, or, ''Complete Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica'', translated and edited by Charles Julius Hempel

Footnotes

Additional sources

''Dr. George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr (1800-1875)''
Pioneers of homeopathy, Thomas Lindsey Bradford, Presented by Dr Robert Séror

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External links

* * Works by Jah

in the Homeopathy Collection, Taubman Medical Library, University of Michiga

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