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Wilhelm Fliess

1858 - 1928

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Wilhelm Fliess (German: Fließ [fliːs]; 24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928) was a German otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed the pseudoscientific theory of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have not been accepted by modern scientists. He is today best remembered for his close friendship and theoretical collaboration with Sigmund Freud, a controversial chapter in the history of psychoanalysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Fliess is the 460th most popular physician (down from 436th in 2019), the 724th most popular biography from Poland (up from 729th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Wilhelm Fliess ranks 460 out of 726. Before him are Deborah Birx, Hiroshi Nakajima, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Bénédict Morel, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer. After him are René Favaloro, Benjamin Rush, Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Friedrich von Esmarch, William Bayliss, and Nikolay Gamaleya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Wilhelm Fliess ranks 88. Before him are Richard Bergh, Sébastien Faure, Henry Watson Fowler, P. J. Kennedy, Emma Calvé, and Carl Swartz. After him are E. Nesbit, John L. Sullivan, Bipin Chandra Pal, Eduard von Toll, Gerard Philips, and Mikimoto Kōkichi. Among people deceased in 1928, Wilhelm Fliess ranks 67. Before him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Enrico Cecchetti, Alexander Spendiaryan, Arnold Rothstein, Arthur Gore, and Franz Roubaud. After him are Larry Semon, Alexander Trepov, Émile Fayolle, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Moritz von Auffenberg, and Ludwig von Pastor.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wilhelm Fliess ranks 724 out of 1,694. Before him are Ernst Degner (1931), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), Uwe Johnson (1934), Nathan Alterman (1910), and Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808). After him are Günther Pancke (1899), Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), Władysław Odonic (1190), Ingrid Pitt (1937), Edward Lasker (1885), and Erika Steinbach (1943).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Wilhelm Fliess ranks 15. Before him are Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Robert Remak (1815), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), and Hilary Koprowski (1916). After him are Kazimierz Bein (1872), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), Max Gerson (1881), Adam Zamenhof (1888), Eugene Lazowski (1913), and Ludwig Traube (1818).

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