David Veit

David Veit ( born November 8, 1771 in Breslau, † April 15, 1814 ) was a German physician.

His father Joseph Veit was a banker; his brother Simon Veit was the husband of Moses Mendelssohn's daughter Dorothea Schlegel. From Vitus study period comes a remarkable correspondence with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, in the Veit and his encounters with Goethe describes. With Abraham Mendelssohn, he traveled after finishing his studies in Paris. In 1799 he moved to Hamburg, where he worked as a physician and naturalist. He associated, among others here Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus, Friedrich Christoph Perthes, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Writings

  • De humani corporis organorum tam energia seu activitate international quam cum organis sociis connexione sen sympathia, Halle 1797
  • General theoretical and practical principles of chemical affinity or elective attraction to non-profit use for naturalist, chemist,, physicians and pharmacists, Berlin 1794
  • JAH Reimarus after periods fifty years of his medical career. A biographical Beytrag to Feyer of April 29, Hamburg 1807
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