Gustav Schlickeysen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German naturopath
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Gustav Schlickeysen
- Gustav Schlickeysen (September 9, 1843 – 1893) was a German naturopath and raw food advocate. In 1875, Schlickeysen attacked meat-eating for causing militarism and a "roaming, savage and warlike life".
- He argued that Germans should embrace a fruit and grain diet, appropriate to their natural home in the forest.
- He has been described as an "early propagandist of vegetarianism."Schlickeysen was a fruitarian who proposed the use of "fruit medicine", he believed that raw fruits were "sunlight nutrition".
- 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.
- In 1877, Francis William Newman President of the Vegetarian Society criticized the book for condemning beans, lentils, honey, tea and all cooked foods.
- Newman considered Schlickeysen a "pernicious foe to our society" and the book fanatical.
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