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FEUCHTERSLEBEN, See also:ERNST, FREIIIERR VON (1806-1849) , See also:Austrian physician, poet and philosopher, was See also:born in See also:Vienna on the 29th of See also:April 1806; of an old Saxon See also:noble See also:family. He attended the " Theresian See also:Academy " in his native See also:city, and in 1825 entered its university as a student of See also:medicine. In 1833 he obtained the degree of See also:doctor of medicine, settled in Vienna as a practising surgeon, and in 1834 married. The See also:young doctor kept up his connexion with the university, where he lectured, and in 1844 was appointed See also:dean of the See also:faculty of medicine. He cultivated the acquaintance of See also:Franz See also:Grillparzer, Heinrich See also:Laube, and other intellectual See also:lights of the Viennese See also:world, interested himself greatly in educational matters, and in 1848, while refusing the See also:presidency of the See also:ministry of See also:education, accepted the See also:appointment of under secretary of See also:state in that See also:department. His See also:health, however, gave way, and he died at Vienna on the 3rd of See also:September 1849. He was not only a See also:clever physician, but a poet of See also:fine aesthetical See also:taste and a philosopher. Among his medical See also:works may be mentioned: Uber das Hippokratische erste See also:Buck von der Diat (Vienna, 1835), Arzte and Publicum (Vienna, 1848) and Lehrbuch der arztlichen Seelenkunde (1845). His poetical works include Gedichte (Stutt. 1836), among which is the well-known beautiful hymn, which Mendelssohn set to See also:music. " Es ist bestimmt in Gottes See also:Rat." As a philosopher he is best known by his Zur Diatetik der Seek [See also:Dietetics of the soul] (Vienna, 1838), which attained See also:great popularity, and the tendency of which, in contrast to See also:Hufeland's Makrobiotik (On the See also:Art of Prolonging See also:Life), is to show the true way of rendering life harmonious and lovely. This See also:work had by 1906 gone into fifty See also:editions.

Noteworthy also is his Beitrage zur Litteratur-, Kunst- und Lebenstheorie (Vienna, 1837-1841), and an See also:

anthology, Geist der deutschen Klassiker (Vienna, 1851; 3rd ed. 1865-1866). His collected works (with the exception of the purely medical ones) were published in 7 vols. by Fr. See also:Hebbel (Vienna, 1851-1853). See M. See also:Necker, " Ernst von Feuchtersleben, der See also:Freund Grillparzers," in the Jahrbuch der Grillparzer Gesellschaft, vol. iii. (Vienna, 1893).

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