Severin Wielobycki

Severin Wielobycki (8 January 1793 – 7 September 1893) was a Polish centenarian physician who lived in Edinburgh and London.

A controversial homeopath during a period of scientific focus, his adventurous life ranged from being a soldier in the Kraków Uprising and being a noted botanist, vegetarian, non-smoker and teetotaller.

They initially lived in Wolyn in what is now Ukraine but moved west to a section which is now Poland (but was then German territory) in 1793 in or near Kraków in Silesia.

[2] In 1830/31 he and his whole family took arms in a local fight for independence from Germany and recognition of their Polish identity.

In London he lived variously at Connaught Terrace, 11 Russell Place and 4 Denmark Hill.

He retired in 1865 and moved to 1 Alma Villas in Leicester where Dionysus had been living since 1862 (when he was released from prison).

[8] He died on 7 September 1893[9] at his home at 4 Eaton Villas in St John's Wood aged 100 and 8 months.

[2] Wielobycki delivered a speech in March, 1893 that revealed he was a life-long teetotaller and vegetarian for seventeen years.