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Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843

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Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann ( HAH-nə-mən, German: [ˈzaːmueːl ˈhaːnəman]; 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843) was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Hahnemann is the 61st most popular physician (down from 45th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Germany (down from 366th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Physician.

Samuel Hahnemann is most famous for his theory of homeopathy, which is a system of medicine that uses substances that produce symptoms in healthy people as a form of treatment.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 61 out of 726. Before him are Gabor Maté, Emil Kraepelin, Emil Theodor Kocher, Charles Nicolle, Thutmose IV, and Philippe Pinel. After him are Gerhard Domagk, Jean-Martin Charcot, Francesco Redi, António Egas Moniz, René Laennec, and Franz Mesmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 7. Before him are Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII of France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Paul Barras, Axel von Fersen the Younger, and Alexander Hamilton. After him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, James Parkinson, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Georges Couthon, Anthony of Saxony, and Giovanni Battista Viotti. Among people deceased in 1843, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 5. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Friedrich Hölderlin, Noah Webster, and William I of the Netherlands. After him are Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Theodoros Kolokotronis, John Armstrong Jr., Marie Anne Lenormand, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 394 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Fritz Sauckel (1894), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Lothar Matthäus (1961), Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (1655), and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551). After him are Gerhard Domagk (1895), Jürgen Klopp (1967), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), Ilse Koch (1906), and Rupert, King of Germany (1352).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 8. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), Georgius Agricola (1494), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), and Emil Kraepelin (1856). After him are Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780).

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