  Like Cures Like   The science behind homeopathy   The origin
of homeopathy   Samuel Hahnemann (1755 - 1843)  Christian
Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was born
in Meissen, Saxony in Germany on 10th April 1755 to an
impoverished middle-class family. He was taught to read and
write by both parents and was an avid learner even in his early
years. He became proficient at languages and even by the age of
twelve was sufficiently accomplished in Greek and Latin that he
was given the task of tutoring other children in these. His
linguistic repertoire expanded through his adolescence so that
by the age of twenty he had mastered English, French, Italian,
Latin and Greek, and was able to make a living at the University
of Leipzig as a translator and teacher in languages. He
subsequently added to these, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and
Hebrew. He also trained in sciences, was a member of various
scientific societies and was honored especially for his
researches in chemistry. Other fields of expertise