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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 modern hydrotherapy, which is used in alternative and orthodox medicine. 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 81,570 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenz Priessnitz is the 287th most popular physician, the 254th most popular biography from Czechia and the 3rd most popular Czech Physician.

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  • 15

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 287 out of 502. Before him are Kálmán Kalocsay, Gavriil Ilizarov, Hilary Koprowski, Franciscus Donders, Rembert Dodoens, and Claus Schilling. After him are William Osler, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Eugene Botkin, Harvey Cushing, Michael DeBakey, and Christian Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 20. Before him are Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Countess of Ségur, and Princess Maria Anna of Saxony. After him are Almeida Garrett, Jedediah Smith, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, René Caillié, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, and François-Auguste Biard. Among people deceased in 1851, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 23. Before him are Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Mikhail Lazarev, Albert Lortzing, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, and Karl Lachmann. After him are Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Karl Gützlaff, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Lorenz Oken, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, and Göran Wahlenberg.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 254 out of 973. Before him are Helena Vondráčková (1947), Jan Hammer (1948), Hugo Meisl (1881), Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (1031), Antonio Rosetti (1746), and Silvia Saint (1976). After him are Dominik Duka (1943), Gabriel von Max (1840), Pavel Kohout (1928), Jan Jindra (1932), Josef Lada (1887), and Marta Kubišová (1942).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Czechia

Among physicians born in Czechia, Vincenz Priessnitz ranks 3. Before him are Carl von Rokitansky (1804) and Eduard Bloch (1872). After him are Joseph Škoda (1805), Tomáš Špidlík (1919), Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (1816), Arnold Pick (1851), Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (1782), Friedrich von Berchtold (1781), and Emil Holub (1847).

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