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Vincenz Priessnitz

1799 - 1851

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Vincenz Priessnitz, also written Prießnitz (sometimes in German Vinzenz, in English Vincent, in Czech Vincenc; 4 October 1799 – 26 November 1851) was a peasant farmer in Gräfenberg, Austrian Silesia, who is generally considered the founder of hydrotherapy, an alternative medical treatment. Priessnitz stressed remedies such as vegetarian food, air, exercise, rest, water, and traditional medicine. He is thus also credited with laying the foundations of what became known as Nature Cure, although it has been noted that his main focus was on hydrotherapeutic techniques. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenz Priessnitz has received more than 86,702 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vincenz Priessnitz is the 286th most popular physician (up from 287th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 254th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 286 out of 726. Before him are Saint Fabiola, Thomas Hodgkin, Thomas Addison, Bronisława Dłuska, Guillaume Dupuytren, and Podalirius. After him are Henry Gray, Drew Weissman, Ennio Antonelli, Franciscus Donders, Caesarius of Nazianzus, and Johann Conrad Dippel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 18. Before him are Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and John Lindley. After him are Countess of Ségur, René Caillié, Almeida Garrett, Ferenc Gyulay, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, and Jedediah Smith. Among people deceased in 1851, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 24. Before him are Karl Lachmann, Mikhail Lazarev, Albert Lortzing, Lorenz Oken, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. After him are Karl Gützlaff, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Stanko Vraz, and Conrad Graf.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 252 out of 1,200. Before him are Johannes Widmann (1460), Spytihněv I, Duke of Bohemia (875), Helena Vondráčková (1947), Alice Herz-Sommer (1903), Jaroslav Drobný (1921), and Erhard Raus (1889). After him are Beatrice of Luxembourg (1305), Václav Neumann (1920), Max Dvořák (1874), Karel Reisz (1926), Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796), and Dana Zátopková (1922).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Czechia

Among physicians born in Czechia, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 4. Before him are Eduard Bloch (1872), Carl von Rokitansky (1804), and Joseph Škoda (1805). After him are Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), Tomáš Špidlík (1919), Arnold Pick (1851), Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (1782), Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (1816), Jan Janský (1873), Emil Holub (1847), and Gisela Januszewska (1867).

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