Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig
Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig (* July 7, 1770 in a hurry Castle; † June 4, 1839 in Dresden) was a German physician, botanist and musicologist.
Life
The son of a doctor was already enrolled on January 5, 1778 at the University of Leipzig. He attended the Royal State School in Grimsby, began on September 19, 1787 his medical studies at the Leipzig Academy, was founded on February 13, 1790 Baccalaurus of medicine and in 1792 undertook a study trip to Padua. After he returned to Leipzig, he acquired on 29 May 1793 Licentiate in Medicine. On February 19, 1795 he was awarded the highest degree of philosophical philosophy and graduated in April 1795 as a doctor of medicine.
After he had qualified as an associate professor at the Leipzig Academy, he moved on 5 January 1796als substitute of Johann Gottfried Leonhardi to the University of Wittenberg. In 1801 he became professor of anatomy and botany and suggested the first clinical outpatient clinic in Wittenberg. In 1803 he was physician to the king of Saxony Friedrich Friedrich August in Dresden. This he accompanied on all trips, even 1813 in captivity in Frederick field. After he returned to Dresden in 1815, he devoted himself to the training of Saxon military doctors.
To do this, who founded the surgical- medical academy, among other things, to which he himself was in 1816 professor of special pathology clinic. He at as the Court and Medical Council of the State Government. In 1822 he took on health grounds departure from academic life to devote his private practice and botany. In 1838 he traveled to Hamburg, England and Ireland. He was returned afflicted with a facial erysipelas, the metastasisch spread to the brain and at which disease he died. Kreysig is mainly known for his work on the diseases of the heart, which was not unimportant to the knowledge of the then state this doctrine. In addition, he has studied botany as well as music and composed a suite for piano.