Editing Samuel Hahnemann (section)

== Early life ==
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in [[Meissen]], [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]], near [[Dresden]]. His father Christian Gottfried Hahnemann<ref>[http://www.homoeoscan.com/2014/04/brief-history-of-life-of-Samuel-Hahnemann-The-Father-of-Homoeopathy..html Brief History of Life of Samuel Hahnemann, The Father of Homoeopathy]. Homoeoscan.com. 10 April 2014</ref> was a painter and designer of porcelain, for which the town of Meissen is famous.<ref>
{{cite book
 | author = Coulter, Harris Livermore 
 | title = Divided Legacy, a History of the Schism in Medical Thought
 | volume = II
 | location = Washington
 | publisher = [[Wehawken Books]]
 | year = 1977
 | page = 306
 | isbn = 0-916386-02-3
 | oclc = 67493911
}}</ref>

As a young man, Hahnemann became proficient in a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Greek and Latin. He eventually made a living as a translator and teacher of languages, gaining further proficiency in "[[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Chaldean Neo-Aramaic|Chaldaic]] and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]".<ref name="skylarkbio">
{{cite web
 | url = http://www.skylarkbooks.co.uk/Hahnemann_Biography.htm
 | title = Hahnemann Biography
 | access-date = 13 January 2009
}}</ref>

Hahnemann studied medicine for two years at [[Leipzig]]. Citing Leipzig's lack of clinical facilities, he moved to [[Vienna]], where he studied for ten months.<ref>
{{cite book
 |author = Martin Kaufman
 |title = Homeopathy in America, the Rise and Fall of a Medical Heresy
 |location = Baltimore
 |publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press
 |year = 1972
 |page = 24
 |isbn = 0-8018-1238-0
 |oclc = 264319
}}</ref> His medical professors in Leipzig and Vienna included the physician [[Joseph von Quarin]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CGjDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Joseph%20von%20Quarin%22 |title=The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism|first=Alice A.|last=Kuzniar|year=2017|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn= 978-1487521264}}</ref> later credited for turning [[Vienna General Hospital]] into a model European medical institution.<ref>[http://austria-forum.org/af/AEIOU/Quarin%2C_Joseph_Freiherr_von Austria-Forum] (biography)</ref>

After one term of further study, Hahnemann graduated with a medical degree with honors from the [[University of Erlangen]] on 10 August 1779. His poverty may have forced him to choose Erlangen, as the school's fees were lower than in Vienna.<ref>Haehl, vol. 1, p. 24.</ref> Hahnemann's thesis was titled ''Conspectus adfectuum spasmodicorum aetiologicus et therapeuticus'' [''A Dissertation on the Causes and Treatment of Spasmodic Diseases''].<ref>Cook, p. 36.</ref><ref>
{{cite book
 | author = Richard Haehl
 | title = Samuel Hahnemann His Life and Work
 | year = 1922
 | volume = 2
 | page = 11
 | location = London
 | publisher = Homoeopathic Publishing
 | oclc = 14558215
}}</ref>