Carl Fischer (homeopath)
Carl Frank Fischer (year of birth unknown – 23 June 1893) was a New Zealand doctor, homoeopath and viticulturist. He was born in Germany.

Fischer established his successful practice in Auckland after saving a woman who was buried after a store collapsed.

Between 1855 and 1856 he published 12 issues of the Homeopathic Echo the first medical journal in New Zealand.

He was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Science and Art by the Emperor of Austria for services to natural history and medicine.

Fischer died in 1893 in Chicago where he went to attend a medical congress and exposition and present a paper on the 'Progress of Homeopathy in New South Wales.

Further reading 
 Gluckman, L. K. 'Dr Carl Fischer MD and the history of homoeopathy in Auckland in the 19th century'. New Zealand Medical Journal 90 (1979): pages 66–69
 Gluckman, L. K. 'Dr Carl Frank Fischer MD, an early Auckland physician, botanist and viticulturalist'. Auckland—Waikato Historical Journal No 37 (Sept. 1980): pages 18–20
 Discovering 'The Homeopathic Echo', Auckland War Memorial Museum Blog

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1893 deaths
New Zealand homeopaths
German homeopaths
German emigrants to New Zealand
Year of birth unknown