Julius Hensel

Julius Hensel (* April 30, 1844 probably in Berlin, † June 12, 1903 in Hermsdorf under Kynast ) was a German chemist, pharmacist and physician.

Life

The biographical data about Julius Hensel have survived sparse. He was born on April 30, 1844, possibly in Berlin. After completing an education Hensel seems at the University of Berlin first chemistry at Eilhard Mitscherlich and Heinrich Rose and later studied pharmacology and botany in Alexander Brown to have. According to our own, vague statements, he began in 1859 in addition to study medicine in Switzerland, which he supposedly graduated in 1890 after interruptions.

In contrast to the developed by Justus von Liebig agrochemicals Hensel took a mineral field fertilization with rock flour. His nutrition was based on a so-called " Nährsalztherapie " with which he demarcated from the homeopathic and biochemical way of healing Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler. Hensel's theories - he also appeared as anti-immunization - were highly controversial from the start. His idea of a balanced diet of plants with minerals was indeed taken up by later followers again, could be scientifically but never confirmed. After Elmar Ernst Hensel built his Nährsalztherapie on his also, for those times confused -looking consideration of the physiological processes in the human body (on ).

Hensel founded in 1869 Nährsalzfabrik Hensel plants in Stuttgart- Cannstatt for the manufacture and sale of nutrients, fertilizer salts and tonic lemonade, which set up depots in several German cities. The company's management later campaigned with the slogan " oldest Nährsalzfabrik ". Hensel occurred shortly before his death from the original recipes of its mineral nutrients for humans and animals as well as the publishing rights of his writings to the successor of the Hensel works, the pharmacist Eugene Hänsler. The factory was decades ahead and produced, among other things Soy products and skin creams.

Traces of a reception

As JW Teichel published the producer Fritz Teichel ( Physiological nutrient Großsteinberg ) from about 1900 to the end of the 1920s, several writings of both, and in the sense of Hensel 's diet theories. The trailer of Hensel's biochemical nutrition, the general practitioner and homeopath Gustav Ernst Hugo Hartung (1868-1928), as Hensel in Hermsdorf under Kynast alive, wrote the preface to the 1897 German translation of Alice Bunker Stockhams Karezza. Ethies of Marriage under the title The reform marriage. A means of increasing the joy of existence and for the refinement of the human race. He also mentions in that Hensel.

The poet and writer Heinrich Schäff - Zerweck reported that he had on a Stuttgart Freethinkers meeting about 1884 first heard a lecture Hensel, who lived in Stuttgart at the time.

Through close contact with the publishers of homeopathic literature in Philadelphia, Francis Edmund Boericke and Adolph Julius Tafel ( Boericke & Tafel ), Hensel's writings were also common in the homeopathic and Lebensreform circles in North America.

Writings

Hensel's writings appeared in several editions, partly changed during his lifetime by himself, at different publishers, sometimes under different titles and reprints as up to the present day.

  • (Ed.): The retort. Newspaper for Practical Pharmacie, Conrad, Berlin 1867 ( continued until 1869 by the pharmacist Julius Krüger under the name Pharmaceutical Press, and Berlin Apotheker Zeitung )
  • New macrobiotics, or: The art of preventing disease and cure, together with a remedy list; for medical man and authorities, publisher of Julius Hensel, Stuttgart 1881
  • Life: its foundations and the means for its preservation, Huseby & Co., Christiana (Oslo ), 1885
  • Mineral fertilization, the natural way to solve the social question, self- publishing, Hermsdorf oJ
  • Macrobiotics, or: our diseases and our remedies. Amendment to: Life, its foundations and the means for its preservation; for general practitioners and educated people, Boericke and board, Philadelphia and Leipzig, 1892 ( re- published by Otto Borg gold, Leipzig 1904)
  • Bread from Stones. A New and Rational System of Land Fertilization and Physical Regeneration. Translated from the German, AJ panel, Philadelphia, 1894 (at the latest since 1927, numerous translations into German )
  • Simplified healing art on physiological chemistry reasons: I. rheumatism and tuberculosis. II How are bacilli? , Otto Borg gold, Leipzig 1899
  • The vital importance of minerals in the blood and the whole substance of life, Otto Borg gold, Leipzig 1902
  • The most important of the whole art of healing or: What do people need to live and stay healthy, Otto Borg gold, Leipzig 1903?
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