Dietrich Georg von Kieser (24 August 1779 – 11 October 1862)[1] was a German physician born in Harburg.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Göttingen, receiving his doctorate from the latter institution in 1804. In 1806 he was named Stadt- und Landphysikus (city physician) of Northeim. For most of his career he was a professor at the University of Jena, where from 1824 to 1862 he served as a "full professor".[2][3]
He was an advocate of balneology, and beginning in 1813 was a physician at the therapeutic spas at Heilbad Berka/Ilm. While working as a professor at the University of Jena, Kieser operated a private ophthalmology clinic from 1831 to 1847, and from 1847 until 1858 he was director of the mental hospital in Jena.[4]
With Adam von Eschenmayer and Christian Friedrich Nasse, he published the 12-volume Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus ("Archive for animal magnetism").[3] Kieser was politically active throughout his career; in October 1817 with philosophers Lorenz Oken and Jakob Friedrich Fries, he partook in the historic Wartburg Festival.[5] In 1858 he was named president of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.[4] He died in Jena.
A magnesium sulfate mineral known as kieserite is named after him.[6]
Written works
edit- Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus (Archive for animal magnetism); (1817 ff).
- Elemente der Physiatrik (Elements of the physiatric); (1855).
- This was the first textbook illustrated with photographs.[7]
- Grundzüge der Anatomie der Pflanzen (General outline of plant anatomy); (1815).
- Grundzüge der Pathologie und Therapie des Menschen (General outline of pathology and therapy of humans); (1812).
- Über die Emancipation des Verbrechers im Kerker (On the emancipation of the criminal in prison); (1845).
- Von den Leidenschaften und Affecten (1848).
References
edit- ^ Heather Wolffram (2009). The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, Ic/I. 1870-1939. Rodopi. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-90-420-2728-2. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Sander L. Gilman (1995). Freud, Race, and Gender. Princeton University Press. pp. 132–. ISBN 978-0-691-02586-5. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ a b ADB:Kieser, Dietrich Georg von In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, S. 726–730.
- ^ a b Kieser, Dietrich Georg von In: Neue Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Contributions to the history and improvement of the German universities by Karl Von Raumer
- ^ Kieserite Mindat.org
- ^ Suren Lalvani (1996). Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies. SUNY Press. pp. 129–. ISBN 978-1-4384-0993-1. Retrieved 30 June 2013.