Johann Caspar Scheuchzer
Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, (26 January 1702 – 21 April 1729; also known as "Hans Kaspar" and "Jean Gaspard") was a Swiss naturalist, physician and writer on the history and culture of Japan Life. Scheuchzer was born in Zürich. The third child of the Zürich scholar Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733) and his wife Susanna, he grew up in a stimulating environment. His father worked as a physicist, psychiatrist, psychiatrist, naturalist and a writer on the Alps. Scheuchzer translated and edited the manuscript "Today's Japan" by Engelbert Kaempfer, which had been acquired by Hans Sloane with the rest of  Kaempfer's collection – this translation was published in two folio volumes in 1727, with a title page reading: This work may have exacerbated Scheuchzer's illness and his exact cause of death is unknown. He died in spring 1729 in Sloane's house in London and was buried on 24 April in the churchyard of Chelsea Old Church.