Editing Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (section)

==Life and career==
The son of the namesake senior town [[physician]] (''Archiater'') of Zürich and Barbara Fäsi, daughter of the principal of the Latin school, he received his education in Zürich and, in 1692, went to the [[University of Altdorf]] near [[Nuremberg]], being intended for the medical profession. Early in 1694, he took his degree of doctor in medicine at the [[Utrecht University|University of Utrecht]], and then returned to [[Altdorf bei Nürnberg]] to complete his mathematical studies. He studied astronomy under [[Georg Christoph Eimmart|Georg Eimmart]]. He went back to Zürich in 1696 (following the death of the town physician Johann Jakob Wagner in 1695) and was made junior town physician (''Poliater'') with the promise of the professorship of mathematics which he duly obtained in 1710.{{sfn|Coolidge|1911}} From 1697 he was a secretary at the Collegium der Wohlgesinnten where he gave lectures on philosophy. He also worked as a curator of the Kunstkammer (natural history cabinet) of the city of Zürich. He corresponded widely with other scholars and published in the transactions of the Royal Society where he was elected a Fellow on November 30, 1703 seconded by John Woodward (1665–1728) with whom he shared [[Neptunism|Neptunist]]-like views. He married Susanna Vogel and they had nearly nine children but only a few lived to adulthood. He was promoted to the chair of physics, with the office of senior [[city physician]] ({{Lang|de|Stadtarzt}}), in January 1733, only a few months before his death.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49936 |title=«Unglaubliche Bergwunder» Johann Jakob Scheuchzer und Graubünden. Ausgewählte Briefe 1699–1707 |publisher=Instituts für Kulturforschung Graubünden |year=2019 |editor=Leoni, Simona Boscani |doi=10.7892/boris.140361 |isbn=978-3-905342-59-8 |language=de |hdl=20.500.12657/49936}}</ref> He died on 23 June 1733 in Zürich.