Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was a member of Lodge Minerva in Leipzig, Germany. He founded homeopathy, a branch of medicine based on the principle that a disease could be cured by drugs that would produce symptoms of itself in a healthy person. Brother Hahnemann's research led him to study and translate texts in several languages. Over the course of his lifetime in addition to his native language of German, he became fluent in English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and Hebrew.
