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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 20,998 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel is the 379th most popular physician (down from 355th in 2019), the 2,896th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,629th in 2019) and the 64th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 379 out of 502. Before him are Peter C. Gøtzsche, Peseshet, Crawford Long, Adrien Proust, Johann von Staupitz, and Ali ibn Ridwan. After him are René Favaloro, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Anders Chydenius, and James Barry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 23. Before him are Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, Charles Macintosh, François-Xavier Fabre, Slimane of Morocco, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, and Samuel Wilson. After him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, John Leslie, Joseph Weigl, Samuel Frederick Gray, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, and Benjamin Smith Barton. Among people deceased in 1833, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 24. Before him are Adamantios Korais, Ferdinand Hérold, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Antoni Radziwiłł, Rahel Varnhagen, and René Louiche Desfontaines. After him are Banastre Tarleton, Nannette Streicher, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Fausto Elhuyar, Ivan Martinov, and Gottlob Ernst Schulze.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 2,896 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), Hans von Koessler (1853), Johann Samuel König (1712), Otto Warburg (1859), Johannes Schmidt (1843), and Wilhelm Roux (1850). After him are Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Lina Radke (1903), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700), Werner Egk (1901), and Sonja Ziemann (1926).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel ranks 64. Before him are Willi Graf (1918), Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), Adolph Kolping (1813), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Theodor Meynert (1833), and Johann von Staupitz (1465). After him are Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), and Friedrich von Esmarch (1823).

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