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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel has received more than 22,908 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel is the 425th most popular physician (down from 378th in 2019), the 3,371st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,893rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 425 out of 726. Before him are José Gregorio Hernández, Helen B. Taussig, Wilhelm Stekel, David Cooper, William Kaelin Jr., and Giorgio Biandrata. After him are Kiyoshi Shiga, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Ibn Butlan, Ferdinand von Mueller, Zilda Arns, and Petrus Alphonsi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 26. Before him are Samuel Wilson, Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Joseph Weigl, and John Leslie. After him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Jacob Perkins, Wilhelm Hisinger, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, and John Farey Sr.. Among people deceased in 1833, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 26. Before him are René Louiche Desfontaines, Rahel Varnhagen, Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, Nannette Streicher, and Fausto Elhuyar. After him are Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Banastre Tarleton, Ivan Martinov, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Yagan, and Gervasio Antonio de Posadas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 3,371 out of 7,253. Before him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Hans Jordan (1892), Bruno S. (1932), Siegfried Bing (1838), and Henriette Sontag (1806). After him are Franz Grashof (1826), Kevin-Prince Boateng (1987), Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (1544), Melchior Hoffman (1495), Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1848), and Heinrich Bach (1615).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 72. Before him are Hans Münch (1911), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Theodor Meynert (1833), Paul Julius Möbius (1853), and Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723). After him are Ferdinand von Mueller (1825), Caspar Peucer (1525), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Oskar Vogt (1870), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762).

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