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Paracelsus

1493 - 1541

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Paracelsus (; German: [paʁaˈtsɛlzʊs]; c. 1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paracelsus has received more than 2,915,287 page views. Her biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia. Paracelsus is the 4th most popular physician, the 4th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Physician.

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  • 75

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Paracelsus ranks 4 out of 502. Before her are Hippocrates, Florence Nightingale, and Galen. After her are Robert Koch, Josef Mengele, Edward Jenner, Basil of Caesarea, Andreas Vesalius, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, L. L. Zamenhof, and Albert Schweitzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1493, Paracelsus ranks 1. After her are Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Maximilian Sforza, Anne de Montmorency, William IV, Duke of Bavaria, Sten Sture the Younger, Olaus Petri, Tansen, Yamamoto Kansuke, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Clarice de' Medici, and Nicolaus Olahus. Among people deceased in 1541, Paracelsus ranks 1. After her are Francisco Pizarro, Margaret Tudor, Johann Georg Faust, Pedro de Alvarado, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Francysk Skaryna, Gazi Husrev-beg, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Jean Clouet, Bernard van Orley, and Thomas Culpeper.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paracelsus ranks 4 out of 876. Before her are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), and Le Corbusier (1887). After her are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Henry Dunant (1828), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Paul Klee (1879).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Paracelsus ranks 1. After her are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), and Adolf Meyer (1866).

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