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Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel

1766 - 1833

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Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde (1792–99 in four volumes with later editions running to five) and several other medical reference works. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel is the 250th most popular physician (up from 425th in 2019), the 1,709th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,371st in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 250 out of 726. Before him are Francysk Skaryna, Li Shizhen, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Weyer, John O'Keefe, and James Lind. After him are Constantine the African, Heo Jun, Carl Værnet, Charaka, Hans Rosling, and Leonhart Fuchs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 16. Before him are William Hyde Wollaston, Johanna Schopenhauer, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Maine de Biran, Rodolphe Kreutzer, and Dominique Jean Larrey. After him are John Farey Sr., Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, François-Xavier Fabre, Slimane of Morocco, Charles Macintosh, and Samuel Frederick Gray. Among people deceased in 1833, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 20. Before him are Hugh Glass, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Edmund Kean, Abbas Mirza, Adamantios Korais, and Michał Kleofas Ogiński. After him are René Louiche Desfontaines, Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, Rahel Varnhagen, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Ivan Martinov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 1,709 out of 7,253. Before him are Viktor Brack (1904), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Princess Marie of Baden (1782), Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg (1623), Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814), and Matthias Jabs (1955). After him are Edmund Landau (1877), Otto Rasch (1891), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Elisabeth of Schönau (1129), Friedrich Kellner (1885), and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 36. Before him are Waldemar Hoven (1903), Carl Ludwig (1816), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), and Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818). After him are Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), and Eduard Wirths (1909).

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