Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann

Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, studied medicine in Leipzig, Vienna and Erlangen and completed his doctoral degree at FAU.

He worked as a doctor, translated and published numerous medical texts, and devoted much of his time to chemical and pharmacological experiments. His experiences and experiments ultimately led him to develop a new form of medicine, known as homoeopathy.

His work ‘Organon der Heilkunst’ (organon of medicine), published in 1810, is regarded as the first work documenting the fundamental principles of homoeopathy.

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