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Hans Heinrich Reckeweg 1905 – 1985

Hans Heinrich Reckeweg 1905 – 1985 was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and began to produce a range of remedies called Homotoxicology, GmbH

Reckeweg was a friend of August Karl Gustav Bier, Continue Reading »

Apollinaris Victor Jagielski 1853 – 1920

Apollinaris Victor Jagielski ?1853 – 1920 MD Berlin, was a German orthodox physician, Physician to the Prussian Army, who converted to homeopathy and practiced in Britain, where he was awarded MRCP, and FRCP, FBHS, MBMS, Physician at the Middlesex Hospital, Physician at the Margaret Street Infirmary, Governor of the London Homeopathic Hospital, and an advocate of electrotherapeutic baths, Superintendant and Resident Physician to the Royal York Bath Company,

Jagielski practiced at 8, Weymouth Street, and at 14 Dorset Square, and at York Place Regents Park,

Jagielski was present at the 8th International Homeopathic Congress in 1911, Continue Reading »

Adolf Salis Schwabe 1800 – 1853

calico printerAdolf Salis Schwabe 1800 – 1853 was a German Jew who converted to Unitarianism, a calico printer and philanthropist, born in Berlin and an immigrant to Manchester, he was a Patron of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary in 1851, Chairman of the Manchester School of Free Traders,

Salis Schwabe was married Julie Salis Schwabe 1819 – 1897, who founded a number of elementary schools in Naples, and she also managed the Garibaldi Schools for orphans in Naples and Turin, no doubt she discovered homeopathy there, as Cosmo Maria De Horatiis’s famous scientific trials into homeopathy caused such a storm. Salis Schwabe and his wife also lived in Paris, so it is possible they also knew Samuel Hahnemann. Continue Reading »

Alfons Beck 1808 -1894

homeopathAlfons Beck 1808? -1894? was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy

Alfons Beck was a colleague of Carl Bojanus, Anton von Hubbenett, Osip Lensky, Carl Frantz Dominik von Villers, Continue Reading »

Willi Sewerin 1914 – 2000

HannoverWilli Sewerin 1914 – 2000 was a German who studied veterinary medicine at Hannover University, and then converted to homeopathy to become a famous manufactirer of Q Potencies at Arcana Arzneimit telherstellung.

Sewerin was a student of Adolf Voegeli, Continue Reading »

Ernst Harnisch 1802 – 1868

MagnetErnst Harnisch 1802? – 1868? MD was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.

Harnisch was a student of Samuel Hahnemann and a member of the Prover’s Union, working on Angustura, China, North magnet, South magnet,

Harnisch was a colleague of Christian Theodore Herrmann,

Harnisch submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications.

C G Kallenbach 1802 – 1880

frankfurtC G Kallenbach 1802? – 1880? MD was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, a member of the Central Society of German Homeopathy,

Kallenbach was the homeopathic physician of the bankers Grunelius and Co, William II Elector of Hesse, Moritz August von Bethmann Hollweg, Daniel Heinrich Mumm, Amschel Rothschild, and he was a colleague of Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth, and he took over his practice in Frankfurt in 1850.

Kallenbach was also a colleague of Friedrich Jakob Rummel, Continue Reading »

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1759 – 1805

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1759 – 1805Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1759 – 1805 was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

Schiller was a patient of Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland, and a friend of Rudolf Zacharias Becker, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henry Crabb Robinson, August Ernst Freiherr von Steigentesch,

Schiller said “A physician whose horizon is bounded by an historical knowledge of the human machine, and who can distinguish terminologically and locally the coarser wheels of this intellectual clock work, may be perhaps, idolised by the mob; but he will never raise the Hippocratic art above the narrow sphere of a mere bread earning craft.” Continue Reading »

Ernest Augustus I 1771 – 1851

Ernest Augustus I 1771 – 1851Ernest Augustus I 1771 – 1851 was king of Hanover from 1837, and from 1799 Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale in the Peerage of Great Britain. He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz.

Ernest Augustus employed George Adolph Weber as his Privy Counsellor and Royal Physician, and he awarded him the Knights Cross of the Order of Guelph in 1859.

Ernest Augustus was the brother in law of Queen Dowager Adelaide, the brother of Prince Adolphus Duke of Cambridge (married to Augusta Duchess of Cambridge), and an intimate of Abbe Campbell, and he served under Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington,

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George Adolph Weber 1801 – 1879

HanoverGeorge Adolph Weber (sometimes referred to as J A or J H Weber) 1801? – 1879? MD Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at the University of Freyburg, Privy Counsellor and Royal Physician to Ernest Augustus I King of Hanover and Prince von Solms Lich and Hohen Solms, Consultant Physician at hospitals in Bremen and Hanover, was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy,

George Adolph Weber was the Court Physician of the King and Queen of Hanover and the Court of Hessen, who awarded him with the Knights Cross of the Order of GuelphKnights Cross of the Order of Guelph in 1859.

Georg Adolph Weber was also a member of the Central Association of Homeopaths in Leipsig, alongside Albrecht, Baumann, Ernst von Brunnow, Pierre Dufresne, Anton Fischer, Carl Franz, Comte Sebastien Gaeten Salvador Maxime Des Guidi, Gaumann, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub, Frantz Hartmann, Carl Haubold, Hofrath, Kretschmar, Kruger Hansen, Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux, Moritz Wilhelm Mueller, Muhlenbein, Charles Gaspard Peschier, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Gottlieb Martin Wilhelm Ludwig Rau, Rohl, Mathias Roth, Ruckert, Rummel, J A Schubert, John Ernst Stapf, Suffert, Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks, Friedrich Wolf, and many others.

George Adolph Weber was also a colleague of Ernst Louis Ambrecht, Wilhelm Elwert,

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