Dietrich Georg von Kieser

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Dietrich Georg von Kieser (August 24, 1779 - October 11, 1862) was a German physician who was born in Harburg. He studied medicine in Würzburg and Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1804. For most of his career he was a professor at the University of Jena, and from 1824 until 1862, he was a "full professor". As well as being a renowned physician, Kieser was also a learned scholar concerning natural sciences.

While working as a professor at the University of Jena, Kieser also operated a private ophthalmology clinic from 1831 until 1847, and from 1847 until 1858 he was director of the Grand Ducal Mental Hospital. He was also an advocate of balneology, and beginning in 1813 was a physician at the therapeutic spas at Heilbad Berka.

Kieser was politically active throughout his career, in October 1817 along with historian Heinrich Luden and philosophers Lorenz Oken and Jakob Friedrich Fries, he partook in the historic Wartburg Festival. With Adam von Eschenmayer (1768-1852) he published the 12-volume Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus (Archive for Animal Magnetism). Also a magnesium sulfate mineral called kieserite is named after him.

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• Zeitschrift Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus (1817 ff)
• Elemente der Physiatrik (1855)
• Grundzüge der Anatomie der Pflanzen (1815)
• Grundzüge der Pathologie und Therapie des Menschen (1812)
• Über die Emancipation des Verbrechers im Kerker (1845)
• Von den Leidenschaften und Affecten (1848)