The Lavater brothers were Johann Heinrich Lavater (baptised 21 February 1611 – 9 June 1691) and Johann Jacob Lavater (1594–1636), both Swiss physicians and naturalists.
The brothers were the sons of Heinrich Lavater, also a physician, and a professor of physics and mathematics inZürich.[1][2]
Johann Heinrich gained his doctorate inBasel in 1647,[3] and became a physician inBern in 1653. In 1668 he prepared the Zürich Ordinance aboutplague.[4] He became professor of medicine and natural history at theCarolinum, Zürich.[1]
Little is known of Johann Jacob, except that he too was a physician and a naturalist.[1]
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the genusLavatera (tree mallows) in theMalvaceae in their honour in 1753.[1]
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