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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 56,785 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Leopold Auenbrugger is the 305th most popular physician (down from 294th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Austria (down from 454th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 305 out of 502Before him are Leonid Kulik, Joseph Škoda, Realdo Colombo, Helen B. Taussig, Charles Best, and Aletta Jacobs. After him are Hinrich Lichtenstein, Randy Schekman, George Huntington, Dorothea Erxleben, Antoine Louis, and Johann Conrad Dippel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 14Before him are Georg Benda, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pietro Nardini, Amursana, and Paisius Velichkovsky. After him are François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Paisius of Hilendar, Petrus Camper, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Flora MacDonald, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. Among people deceased in 1809, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 14Before him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, François Laurent d'Arlandes, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Matthew Boulton, and Joseph-Marie Vien. After him are William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Ueda Akinari, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Augustin Pajou, and Anton Stamitz.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 499 out of 1,237Before him are Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868), Sylvester Stadler (1910), Sebastian Kurz (1986), Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (1874), Franz Kutschera (1904), and Brian Laudrup (1969). After him are Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria (1295), Richard Gerstl (1883), Karl Rappan (1905), August Eigruber (1907), Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805), and Hans Gross (1847).

Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Leopold Auenbrugger ranks 7Before him are Aribert Heim (1914), Hans Asperger (1906), Hans Selye (1907), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Róbert Bárány (1876), and Eric Kandel (1929). After him are Irmfried Eberl (1910), Victor Babeș (1854), and Paul Neumann (1875).