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HUFELAND, CHRISTOPH WILHELM (1762-1836)

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HUFELAND, CHRISTOPH WILHELM (1762-1836) , See also:German physician, was See also:born at See also:Langensalza on the 12th of See also:August 1762. His See also:early See also:education was carried on at See also:Weimar, where his See also:father held the See also:office of See also:court physician to the See also:grand duchess. In 1780 he entered the university of See also:Jena, and in the following See also:year proceeded to See also:Gottingen, where in 1783 he graduated in See also:medicine. After assisting his father for some years at Weimar, he was called in 1793 to the See also:chair of medicine at Jena, receiving at the same See also:time the dignities of court physician and councillor at Weimar. In 1798 he was placed at the See also:head of the medical See also:college and generally of See also:state medical affairs in See also:Berlin. He filled the chair of See also:pathology and See also:therapeutics in the university of Berlin, founded in 1809, and in 1810 became councillor of state. He died at Berlin on the 25th of August 1836. Hufeland is celebrated as the most eminent See also:practical physician of his time in See also:Germany, and as the author of numerous See also:works displaying extensive See also:reading and cultivated and See also:critical See also:faculty. The most widely known of his many writings is the See also:treatise entitled Makrobiotik, See also:oder See also:die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlangern (1796), which was translated into many See also:languages. Of his practical works, the See also:System of Practical Medicine (System der praktischen Heilkunde, 1818–1828) is the most elaborate. From 1795 to 1835 he published a See also:Journal der praktischen Arznei and Wundarzneikunde. His autobiography was published in 1863.

There are sketches of his See also:

life and labours by Augustin and Stourdza (1837).

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