Gustav Schlickeysen

Gustav Schlickeysen
Gustav Schlickeysen
Born	September 9, 1843; Berlin, Germany
Died	1893; Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Naturopath, writer

Gustav Schlickeysen (September 9, 1843 – 1893) was a German naturopath and raw food advocate.

Biography

In 1875, Schlickeysen attacked meat-eating for causing militarism and a "roaming, savage and warlike life".^[1] He argued that Germans should embrace a fruit and grain diet, appropriate to their natural home in the forest.^[1] He has been described as an "early propagandist of vegetarianism."^[2]

Schlickeysen was a fruitarian who proposed the use of "fruit medicine", he believed that raw fruits were "sunlight nutrition".^[3] He authored the book Fruit and Bread: A Scientific Diet, which advocated an uncooked diet of fruits, grains and nuts. It was translated by Martin Luther Holbrook.^[4] In 1877, Francis William Newman President of the Vegetarian Society criticized the book for condemning beans, lentils, honey, tea and all cooked foods.^[5] Newman considered Schlickeysen a "pernicious foe to our society" and the book fanatical.^[5]

Publications

Fruit and Bread: A Scientific Diet (Translated from the German by M. L. Holbrook, 1877)

References

^ ^a ^b Treitel, Corinna. (2017). Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0
^ Alexander-Williams, John. (1996). Giving Nature a Higher Purpose: Back-to-Nature Movements in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933. University of Michigan. p. 18
^ Mehdipour, Parvin. (2017). Cancer Genetics and Psychotherapy. Springer Publishing. p. 942. ISBN 978-3-319-64548-3
^ Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004). Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-0275975197
^ ^a ^b Spencer, Colin. (1995). The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism. University Press of New England. p. 276. ISBN 0-87451-708-7

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Gustav Schlickeysen

Born	September 9, 1843 Berlin, Germany
Died	1893 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Naturopath, writer

Gustav Schlickeysen

Biography

Publications

References

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