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Leopold Auenbrugger

1722 - 1809

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Josef Leopold Auenbrugger or Avenbrugger (19 November 1722 – 17 May 1809), also known as Leopold von Auenbrugger, was an Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Auenbrugger has received more than 61,411 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Leopold Auenbrugger is the 296th most popular physician (up from 305th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 497th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 296 out of 726. Before him are Franciscus Donders, Caesarius of Nazianzus, Johann Conrad Dippel, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Gerard van Swieten, and Sigmund Rascher. After him are Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Kálmán Kalocsay, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Horace Wells, Jan Jesenius, and Aëtius of Amida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 13. Before him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Paisius Velichkovsky, Pietro Nardini, and Amursana. After him are Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Paisius of Hilendar, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Nicolas Luckner, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. Among people deceased in 1809, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Pierre Blanchard, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Joseph-Marie Vien, Matthew Boulton, François Laurent d'Arlandes, and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy. After him are William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Ueda Akinari, Augustin Pajou, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, and Dirk van der Aa.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 473 out of 1,424. Before him are Otto Wächter (1901), Leopold Figl (1902), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827), Franz von Liszt (1851), and Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715). After him are Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg (1280), Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (1285), Raul Hilberg (1926), Ignaz Seipel (1876), Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532), and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 8. Before him are Hans Selye (1907), Aribert Heim (1914), Róbert Bárány (1876), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Eric Kandel (1929), and Irmfried Eberl (1910). After him are Victor Babeș (1854), Bénédict Morel (1809), Paul Neumann (1875), and Fritz Klein (1932).

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