Otto Buchinger
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Otto Buchinger | |
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| Born | 16 February 1878 |
| Died | April 16, 1966 (age 88) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Physician |
Otto Buchinger (1878 -1966) was a German physician, credited with being the first to document the beneficial effects of fasting on some diseases.[1]
Biography
[edit]Buchinger was born on February 16, 1878, in Darmstadt. He attended the Ludwigs-University in Gießen, Germany, graduating in with a Law degree in 1897. He subsequently finished a second major in medicine and started his career as an army physician in the German Navy.[2] In 1917, he was discharged due to illness; he suffered from tonsillitis that never completely healed and led to rheumatism in his joints.[2] According to his daughter, Maria Buchinger, he took the advice of a physician colleague, Gustav Riedlin, and tried fasting for the first time. After the 19th day of fasting, he claimed that he "could move all [of his] joints like a healthy recruit".[3]
In 1920, he founded his small fasting clinic in Witzenhausen, Germany.[4] Later, in 1935, he founded his first sanatorium in Bad Pyrmont.[5] He developed a fasting method and described it in his book, The Therapeutic Fasting Cure, which was published in the same year. In 1953, he founded a new clinic at Überlingen on Lake Constance with his daughter Maria Buchinger and son-in-law Helmut Wilhelmi.[6] His grandson, Raimund Wilhelmi, led the Buchinger Wilhelmi clinic in Überlingen with his wife and scientific director, Francoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, until their son, Leonard Wilhelmi, took over the leadership in February 2019.[7]
Otto Buchinger died at the age of 88 on April 16, 1966, in Überlingen on Lake Constance.
See also
[edit]- Intermittent fasting
- List of diets
- Very-low-calorie diet or starvation diet
References
[edit]- ^ Boschmann, Michael (December 16, 2013). "Fasting Therapy – Old and New Perspectives". Forschende Komplementärmedizin. 20 (6): 410–411. doi:10.1159/000357828. PMID 24434754. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Der Mediziner O. Buchinger" (PDF). www.vhghessen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Wer war Dr. Otto Buchinger? – Fasten bewegt" (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ ONLINE, SPIEGEL (13 September 2018). "Als Deutschland das Heilfasten entdeckte". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "20. Juli 2010 - Vor 90 Jahren: Otto Buchinger gründet Fastenklinik". www1.wdr.de (in German). 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ Meffert, Von Christine (28 January 2008). "Gesundheit: Der Saftakt". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Raimund und Leonard Wilhelmi: Generationswechsel in Deutschlands bekanntester Fastenklinik Buchinger". www.handelsblatt.com (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-09.
