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Johann Christian Reil

1759 - 1813

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Johann Christian Reil (20 February 1759 – 22 November 1813) was a German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist. He coined the term psychiatry – Psychiatrie in German – in 1808. Reil was one of five children, and was the son of a Lutheran pastor in Northwest Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Christian Reil has received more than 78,865 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Johann Christian Reil is the 313th most popular physician (up from 354th in 2019), the 2,388th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,709th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Physician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Johann Christian Reil ranks 313 out of 726. Before him are Adolf Kussmaul, Eduard Wirths, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, John Latham, and Hinrich Lichtenstein. After him are Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Antoine Louis, Masawaiyh, Friedrich von Berchtold, Lorna Wing, and Friedrich Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Johann Christian Reil ranks 20. Before him are Friedrich August Wolf, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Jacques Cathelineau, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, and François Devienne. After him are Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, William Playfair, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Franz Krommer, James Edward Smith, and Ferenc Kazinczy. Among people deceased in 1813, Johann Christian Reil ranks 23. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Géraud Duroc, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain. After him are Anton Bernolák, Anton Graff, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Maria Caterina Brignole, Jacques Delille, and Robert Kerr.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Christian Reil ranks 2,388 out of 7,253. Before him are Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769), Heinz Brandt (1907), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), Georg Gänswein (1956), and Fritz Witt (1908). After him are Armin Hary (1937), Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770), Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (1857), Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Peter Schöffer (1420), and Horst Eckel (1932).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Johann Christian Reil ranks 47. Before him are Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Sigmund Rascher (1909), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Eduard Wirths (1909), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780). After him are Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Willi Graf (1918), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), and Johann Peter Frank (1745).

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