Georg Balthasar Metzger was a German physician and scientist, born in Schweinfurt in 1623, who was one of the four founding members of the Leopoldina academy of sciences there. He took his master's degree at Jena in 1646 and his medical doctorate at Basel in 1650. In 1661 Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg, appointed him to Tübingen to improve the teaching of anatomy and surgery, and from 1681 to 1688 he directed the university medical garden, later the botanical garden. He published dissertations on mineral waters, fainting, diabetes and sneezing medicines, and a work on human dentition. He was Lutheran, married Margarete Küffner and died in Tübingen in 1687.
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Metzger was Lutheran. He married Margarete Küffner.
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