Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (August 12, 1762 - August 25, 1836), was a German physician. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and cultivated and critical faculty.
He was born at Langensalza, and educated at Weimar, where his father held the office of court physician to the grand duchess. In 1780 he entered the University of Jena, and in the following year went on to Göttingen, where in 1783 he graduated in medicine. After assisting his father for some years at Weimar, he was called in 1793 to the chair of medicine at Jena, receiving at the same time the positions of court physician and councillor at Weimar. In 1798 he became head of the medical college and generally of state medical affairs in Berlin. He filled the chair of pathology and therapeutics in the Humboldt University, founded in 1809, and in 1810 became councillor of state.
The most widely known of his many writings is the treatise entitled Makrobiotik, oder die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlangern (1796), which was translated into many languages. Of his practical works, the System of Practical Medicine (System der praktischen Heilkunde, 1818-1828) is the most elaborate. From 1795 to 1835 he published a Journal der praktischen Arznei und Wundarzneikunde. His autobiography was published in 1863.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Referenced By
Johann Samuel Ersch
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