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Vincenz Priessnitz

1799 - 1851

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Vincenz Priessnitz, also written Prießnitz (sometimes in German Vinzenz, in English Vincent, in Czech Vincenc; 4 October 1799 – 26 November 1851) was an Austrian hydrotherapist. Originally a peasant farmer in Austrian Silesia, he is generally considered the founder of hydrotherapy, an alternative medical treatment. Priessnitz stressed remedies such as vegetarian food, air, exercise, rest, water, and traditional medicine. He is thus also credited with laying the foundations of what became known as Nature Cure, although it has been noted that his main focus was on hydrotherapeutic techniques. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenz Priessnitz is the 324th most popular physician (down from 286th in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 324 out of 726. Before him are Joseph Škoda, Ernst Gräfenberg, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Tomáš Špidlík, Titus Brandsma, and Marcus Elieser Bloch. After him are Leon Pinsker, Gerard van Swieten, Shinya Yamanaka, Sigmund Rascher, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, and Thomas Sydenham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 23. Before him are John Lindley, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Almeida Garrett, and René Caillié. After him are David Douglas, Ignaz von Döllinger, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Countess of Ségur, Ludwig Rellstab, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur. Among people deceased in 1851, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 26. Before him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Lorenz Oken, Karl Lachmann, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Dean Mahomed, and Karl Gützlaff. After him are Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Göran Wahlenberg, Conrad Graf, Stanko Vraz, and Leopold, Prince of Salerno.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 276 out of 1,200. Before him are Joseph Škoda (1805), Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (1064), Karel Reisz (1926), Alois Eliáš (1890), Karl Fritzsch (1903), and Tomáš Špidlík (1919). After him are Josef Abrhám (1939), Vladimír Remek (1948), Rudolf Serkin (1903), Conrad II, Duke of Bohemia (1136), Svatopluk, Duke of Bohemia (1100), and Lubomír Štrougal (1924).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Czechia

Among physicians born in Czechia, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 5. Before him are Carl von Rokitansky (1804), Eduard Bloch (1872), Joseph Škoda (1805), and Tomáš Špidlík (1919). After him are Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (1816), Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (1782), Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), Jan Janský (1873), Arnold Pick (1851), Gisela Januszewska (1867), and Emil Holub (1847).

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