1755 - 1843
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann ( HAH-nə-mən, German: [ˈzaːmueːl ˈhaːnəman]; 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843) was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Hahnemann has received more than 1,072,247 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Samuel Hahnemann is the 35th most popular physician (up from 38th in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 324th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Physician.
Samuel Hahnemann is most famous for his theory of homeopathy, which is a system of medicine that uses substances that produce symptoms in healthy people as a form of treatment.
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Among physicians, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 35 out of 502. Before him are Alexis Carrel, Georgius Agricola, Al-Zahrawi, Emil von Behring, António Egas Moniz, and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. After him are Thutmose IV, Claude Bernard, Frederick Banting, Aribert Heim, Ambroise Paré, and Marcello Malpighi.
1873 - 1944
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 29
1494 - 1555
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 30
936 - 1013
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 31
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 32
1874 - 1955
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 33
1845 - 1922
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 34
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 35
1420 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 36
1813 - 1878
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 37
1891 - 1941
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 38
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 39
1510 - 1590
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 40
1628 - 1694
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 41
Among people born in 1755, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 4. Before him are Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII of France, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Barras, James Parkinson, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Georges Couthon. Among people deceased in 1843, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin, William I of the Netherlands, and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. After him are Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Joseph Lanner, Marie Anne Lenormand, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, and Charles Macintosh.
1755 - 1793
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 1
1755 - 1824
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 2
1755 - 1842
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 3
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 4
1755 - 1810
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 5
1755 - 1804
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 6
1755 - 1829
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 7
1755 - 1824
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 8
1755 - 1818
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 9
1755 - 1826
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 10
1755 - 1820
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 11
1755 - 1794
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 12
1770 - 1843
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 1
1772 - 1843
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 2
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 3
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 4
1771 - 1843
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 5
1770 - 1843
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 6
1801 - 1843
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 7
1772 - 1843
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 8
1777 - 1843
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 9
1770 - 1843
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 10
1768 - 1843
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 11
1766 - 1843
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 303 out of 6,142. Before him are Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Ludwig Beck (1880), Carl Ritter (1779), and Franz Marc (1880). After him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Michael Wittmann (1914), Johannes Stark (1874), Paul Hindemith (1895), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710).
1480 - 1538
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 297
1742 - 1819
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 298
1850 - 1909
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 299
1880 - 1944
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 300
1779 - 1859
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 301
1880 - 1916
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 302
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 303
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 304
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 305
1874 - 1957
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 306
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 307
1772 - 1829
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 308
1710 - 1784
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 309
Among physicians born in Germany, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 5. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), Josef Mengele (1911), Alois Alzheimer (1864), and Georgius Agricola (1494). After him are Emil Kraepelin (1856), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Franz Mesmer (1734), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).
1843 - 1910
HPI: 80.51
Rank: 1
1911 - 1979
HPI: 80.38
Rank: 2
1864 - 1915
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 3
1494 - 1555
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 4
1755 - 1843
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 5
1856 - 1926
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 6
1883 - 1970
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 7
1734 - 1815
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 8
1895 - 1964
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 9
1884 - 1951
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 10
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 11
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 12