Talk:Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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Espresso Addict 16:04, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Template:Infobox Scientist should be added
 * Article needs expanding and should emphasise reasons for notability of subject
 * Article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
 * Specific information on research should be added
 * Information on writings should be expanded
 * References should be expanded and preferably converted to inline format
 * External links to useful online resources should be added if available
 * His work "Advice to parents regarding children's physical upbringing at a young age" (translated from the title of the Swedish translation printed in 1799) is available in its entirety (http://bibbild.abo.fi/hereditas/gadolin/1751.pdf) at the digitized resources at the University library of Åbo Akademi University. 85.131.21.93 (talk) 20:42, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Title 1798
The book Die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu Verlängen (1798) is called Makrobiotik in the current version of the article. There does not appear to be a rationale for this alternative title, other than to promote Hufeland as originator of macrobiotics (as seen in that article). Can someone provide the rationale for this alternative title, or is this another case where a revision in this and related articles is necessary ? Rgdboer (talk) 21:43, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

An 1826 version uses Macrobiotik to lead the title. Resolved. — Rgdboer (talk) 02:15, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Homeopathy
, here you have said that Hufeland concluded that homeopathy was "irrational" but provided no source. In another edit you have said that he had a complex relationship to homeopathy and you provided a source in the edit summary but no specific page number or quote from a book in German.

On both occasions you have removed a reliable source but not replaced the deleted source with anything else on the article. This is odd behaviour but as you are a German editor you may have access to other sources so you may be correct about this but you have not been able to demonstrate that so far. Can you show a quote in an academic or scholarly work covering Hufeland's views on homeopathy that he considered it irrational? That doesn't appear to be the case as all the sources in English say he was supportive of homeopathy. The only article published on Hufeland's homeopathy in a French journal describes him as an "unprejudiced judge of the attacked homeopathy". He seems to have defended homeopathy from attacks from other scientists. I can not see anywhere in his own writings where he dismissed homeopathy. He definitely was not a critic or skeptic of homeopathy.

The text that was deleted from the article was accurate per sourcing. Unless you can provide reliable sources to the contrary, the text should be restored. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:12, 1 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Chricho, I have given you 24 days to provide a valid source and explain your deletion (this is a long time). You have not done this, so I have restored the reliable source. Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:37, 25 August 2023 (UTC)