Dietrich Georg von Kieser
Dietrich Georg Kieser ( born August 24, 1779 Harburg / Elbe, † October 11, 1862 in Jena) was a German physician and psychiatrist.
Life
Kieser was the son of the pastor Christoph Ludwig Kieser and his wife Sophie nee Warmers. After attending high school in his hometown Kieser 1801 began to study medicine in Göttingen. Just three years later he completed his studies with a doctorate.
He then settled in Winsen and practiced there as a doctor. In 1806 he accepted an offer from Northeim, where he was city and Landphysikus. 1812 he was appointed as associate professor at the University of Jena; as such he worked from 1813 as a " fountain doctor " in the newly opened spa Berka / Ilm. At the origin of this spa Kieser was next to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe significantly involved.
The Battle of France 1814/15 saw Kieser as volunteers. In the course of this campaign he was promoted to colonel Prussian army doctor. As such, he led the major military hospitals in Liege. After the war he was teaching at the University of Jena, and in 1824 he was promoted to full professor of medicine. 1816 took him the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina as a full member on and carried Kieser two years later, its adjunct. Together with his colleague Carl August von Eschenmayer he published from 1817 the journal Archives of animal magnetism. In 1817 he took part in the Wartburg Festival.
1821 married Kieser in Hall Amalie, a daughter of his colleague Johann Christian Reil. Kieser was also politically active. From 1831 to 1848 he was a member of the Landtag of Saxony- Weimar. As its Vice President in 1848, he took part in the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament. As a politician and as a scientist, he argued forcefully for treatment of the mentally ill one in which rehabilitation of the insulation is preferred. He also laid the foundation stone for psychiatry as an academic subject.
Since Kieser's options were limited at the university, he founded in 1831 a private surgical clinic ophthalmiatrische and ran it until 1847. Starting this year, he was the director of the insane, healing and Nursing Home in Jena before. He held until 1858 this office. Incidentally led Kieser in Jena - also private - the Sophronisterium, a clinic for the mentally ill. From 1848 he became the Leopoldina for "Director Ephemeridium ", ie He served as editor of this scientific journal. On his 75th birthday his university honored him with the award of an honorary title Dr. phil. H.C..
In 1858, the Leopoldina chose him as successor to Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck as its new President. Kieser took over from his predecessor a difficult job. As a society name he chose Scheuchzer I. and led the company until his death.
Dietrich Georg Kieser's grave is located on the St. John's Cemetery in Jena.
Kieser's early scientific work was mainly based on empirical results. In his main work "Elements of Psychiatrik " he also states the thesis of the somatic condition of all mental disorders. In the penetration of empirical observation and speculative interpretation Kieser standing in a row with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karl Gustav Himly, Lorenz Oken and the neurologist Carl Eberhard Schelling.
Writings (selection )
- Broad pathology and treatment of people (1812 )
- Broad Anatomy of Plants ( 1815)
- About the Emancipation of the criminal in prison (1845 )
- Of the passions and affections (1848 )
- Elements of Physiatrik (1855 )
- Magazine Archive for Animal Magnetism (1817 ff )