Johann Georg Steigerthal

Illustration from Steigerthal's account of the Leinzell lithopedion. Illustration from Steigerthal's account of the Leinzell lithopedion. Johann Georg Steigerthal (2 February 1666, Nienburg - 27 June 1740, In 1723 the President of the Royal Society Hans Sloane sent Steigerthal (then in Bad Pyrmont with George I) to Lemgo to buy Engelbert Kaempfer's east Asian collection - like the rest of Sloane's collection, it later became part of the foundational deposit of the British Museum.

In 1730 Steigerthal discovered a petroleum well in Linden, now a district of Hanover - a street has been named after him there since 1927. In 1732 Steigerthal carried out one of the first successful vaccination programmes in England

Works De medicamentorum noxis, Diss. 1690 De matheseos et philosophiae naturalis utilitate in arte medica oratio, 1702 De aquarum mineralium praestantia programma quod praelectionibus publicis de thermis et acidulis praemittit J. G. Steigerthal, 1703