Hermann Hospital was the initial foundation on site that shortly became the Texas Medical Center. in spite of its unsettled history, the hospital was the altruistic idea of one of Houstonâs supplementary unusual inhabitants, George Henry Hermann, an unusual mixture of miser, do-gooder and industrialist. His father was a poor Swiss baker who moved to Houston in 1983 and began a shop next to Main Road. Hermann was born in 1843 inside a home at...