Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks 1810 - 1868 was a student of Samuel Hahnemann.
Trinks was a colleague of Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen, Ernst von Brunnow, Carl Franz, Philip Wilhelm Ludwig Greisselich, Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub, Frantz Hartmann, Christian Gottlob Hornburg, Christian Freidrich Langhamme, Georg August Heinrich Muhlenbein, Rodolph Noacks and many others.
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Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis 1785 - 1880 was a doctor and professor in Munich.
Ringseis was a Romantic who believed that healing was a harmonious balance and an absence of disruption within the individual, was a friend of Joseph Attomyr. Ringseis was very influenced by homeopathy, and he used homeopathic remedies to treat his patients.
Frederick Hervey Foster Quin listed Ringseis as a homeopath in his Pharmacopoeia homoeopathica in 1834.
Ringseis was a friend of Elizabeth von Arnim and Fanny Mendelssohn.
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Albert Wolff 1919? - 1940? was the editor of the homeopathic journal Fortschritte der Medizin. Wolff was at the forefront of agitation against vaccination in 1930s Germany. Continue Reading »
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Friedrich Jakob Rummel 1793 - 1854 was an orthodox physician and a fierce opponent of homeopathy.
Rummel was Samuel Hahnemann’s great rival until 1826, when Rummel capitulated and converted to homeopathy.
With Georg August Heinrich Muhlenbein, he founded the North German Provincial Homeopathic Union, and he became President of the Central Society of Homeopathic Physicians, and founder and co-editor of Allgemeine homöopathische Zeitung.
Rummel worked to secure for homeopathy the recognition of the State in Austria and Prussia. Continue Reading »
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Georg August Heinrich Muhlenbein 1764 - 1845 was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become one of the founders and the President of the Central Society of Homeopathic Physicians.
Muhlenbein was a member of the Board of Directors at the Leipsig Hospital alongside Schweikert, John Ernst Stapf, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Friedrich Jakob Rummel, Hartlandson, Raehl, Paul Wolf, Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks, and of the Leipsic physician, Frantz Hartmann, Carl Haubold, and Franz Schubert.
Muhlenbein was also colleague of Samuel Hahnemann and Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub. Continue Reading »
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Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch 1875 – 1951 was a German surgeon.
Sauerbruch was the son in law of Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz, the ‘Griefswald homeopath‘.
Sauerbruch’s name may appear in histories of iatrogenesis, or adverse effects resulting from orthodox medical treatments.
Ferdinand Sauerbruch was very close to the Nazi regime, and he did criticise ‘totalitarianism’ in medical thinking. However, during the war he was anti Nazi. His influence on Fritz Kolbe caused the man to become a spy for the Allies - reputedly the most important spy of the war. Continue Reading »
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Erwin Liek 1878 - 1935 was a German physician and writer.
Liek was founding editor of Hippokrates, a magazine of general health interest with strong ties to homeopathy. Continue Reading »
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Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger (Pflueger) 1829 - 1910 was a German physiologist born in Hanau.
Eduard Pfluger was very close to the ‘Griefswald homeopath‘ Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz, and he studied under Emil du Bois Reymond who experimented with micro doses and the electric phenomena presented by living beings.
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Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub 1795 (1802) - 1839 (1836) studied homeopathy under Carl Gottlob Caspari, Georg August Heinrich and Samuel Hahnemann.
Hartlaub was a colleague of Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks.
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Edward E Hitschmann 1871 - 1957 was an Austrian Jewish physician who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 to find refuge in America.
Edward E Hitschmann’s grandfather was a homeopath. Continue Reading »
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