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".Treitel, Corinna. (2017). Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. 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."Alexander-Williams, John. (1996). Giving Nature a Higher Purpose: Back-to-Nature Movements in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933. University of Michigan. p. 18
Schlickeysen was a fruitarian who proposed the use of "fruit medicine", he believed that raw fruits were "sunlight nutrition".Mehdipour, Parvin. (2017). Cancer Genetics and Psychotherapy. Springer Publishing. p. 942. 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.Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004). Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger Publishing. p. 119. In 1877, Francis William Newman President of the Vegetarian Society criticized the book for condemning beans, lentils, honey, tea and all cooked foods.Spencer, Colin. (1995). The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism. University Press of New England. p. 276. Newman considered Schlickeysen a "pernicious foe to our society" and the book fanatical.
Publications Fruit and Bread: A Scientific Diet (Translated from the German by M. L. Holbrook, 1877)
References
Further reading Anonymous. (1878). Review: Fruit and Bread a Scientific Diet. The Garden 13: 222.