Theodor Hahn
Theodor Hahn (May 19, 1824 – March 3, 1883) was a German hydrotherapist, naturopath and vegetarianism activist. Biography Hahn was born at Ludwigslust. He was influenced by the hydrotherapy of his cousin J. H. Rausse and started his own water cure therapy in October, 1847. He worked with Rausse until his death in 1848 at a water cure institution in Alexandersbad. Hahn was one of the first to use the term "Naturheilkunde" (Nature Cure). In 1850, he managed Buchenthal water cure in Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1852, he became director of Tiefenau water cure in Canton of Zürich. Hahn completed the second and third part of Rausse's book Instructions for the Use of Water Cure during 1851–1852. In the early 1850s Hahn gave up alcohol, coffee, meat and spices. He operated a naturopathic sanatorium Auf der Waid in Oberwaid near St. Gallen from 1862. Medical Historian Karl Eduard Rothschuh commented that Hahn "started out exclusively with the water cure but with his addition of dietetics and vegetarianism to nature cure, he pushed its influence into the beginning of the health and life reform movement." Hahn was influenced by Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's book Makrobiotik and began to prescribe to