1755 - 1843
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (German: [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 826,157 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Samuel Hahnemann is the 38th most popular physician (down from 29th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Germany (down from 244th in 2019) and the 7th 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 38 out of 509. Before him are Paul Ehrlich, Willem Einthoven, Alexis Carrel, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Emil Kraepelin, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, Hua Tuo, Ambroise Paré, Philippe Pinel, Joseph Lister, and Eugen Bleuler.
1854 - 1915
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 32
1860 - 1927
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 33
1873 - 1944
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 34
1845 - 1922
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 35
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 36
1909 - 2012
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 37
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 38
1883 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 39
200 - 208
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 40
1510 - 1590
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 41
1745 - 1826
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 42
1827 - 1912
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 43
1857 - 1939
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 44
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, Paul Barras, James Parkinson, Alexander Hamilton, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Georges Couthon, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski. Among people deceased in 1843, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 4. Before him are William I of the Netherlands, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis. After him are Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Sequoyah, Joseph Lanner, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Peter Wittgenstein, Robert Southey, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.
1755 - 1793
HPI: 88.67
Rank: 1
1755 - 1824
HPI: 82.58
Rank: 2
1755 - 1842
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 3
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 4
1755 - 1810
HPI: 75.52
Rank: 5
1755 - 1829
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 6
1755 - 1824
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 7
1755 - 1804
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 8
1755 - 1826
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 9
1755 - 1794
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 10
1755 - 1820
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 11
1755 - 1818
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 12
1772 - 1843
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 1
1770 - 1843
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 2
1792 - 1843
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 3
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 4
1771 - 1843
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 5
1770 - 1843
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 6
1801 - 1843
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 7
1770 - 1843
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 8
1768 - 1843
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 9
1774 - 1843
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 10
1777 - 1843
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 11
1773 - 1843
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 324 out of 5,289. Before him are Peter Behrens (1868), Sophie Scholl (1921), Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), Robert Bosch (1861), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), and Karl Haushofer (1869). After him are Gustav Stresemann (1878), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Simone Signoret (1921), Sepp Maier (1944), James Franck (1882), and Thomas à Kempis (1380).
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 318
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 319
1131 - 1182
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 320
1861 - 1942
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 321
1798 - 1860
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 322
1869 - 1946
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 323
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 324
1878 - 1929
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 325
1891 - 1970
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 326
1921 - 1985
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 327
1944 - Present
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 328
1882 - 1964
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 329
1380 - 1471
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 330
Among physicians born in Germany, Samuel Hahnemann ranks 7. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Robert Koch (1843), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Franz Mesmer (1734), Georgius Agricola (1494), and Emil Kraepelin (1856). After him are Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Theodor Morell (1886), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), and Werner Forssmann (1904).
1911 - 1979
HPI: 84.44
Rank: 1
1843 - 1910
HPI: 84.13
Rank: 2
1864 - 1915
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 3
1734 - 1815
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 4
1494 - 1555
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 5
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 6
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 7
1883 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 8
1884 - 1951
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 9
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 10
1886 - 1948
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 11
1758 - 1828
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 12
1904 - 1979
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 13