Hufeland

Hufeland, CHRISTOPH WILHELM, German physician, was born on 12th August 1762, at Langensalza, in Thuringia. After studying at Jena and Göttingen, he was appointed physician to the court of Weimar, where his father and his grandfather had previously filled the same office. In 1793 he was appointed professor of Medicine at Jena, and in 1798 went to Berlin to preside over the medical college there and the Charité Hospital. On the foundation of the university of Berlin in 1809 he became one of its professors. He died 25th August 1836. He had a very high reputation for skill as a physician, was greatly esteemed for his intellectual abilities and his fine character, and founded a number of benevolent societies and institutions. Of his published works the most notable were the famous Makrobiotik, or the art of prolonging life (1796; 8th ed. 1889), which was translated into almost all the languages of Europe; a work on the physical education of the young (1799; 12th ed. 1875); and Enchiridion Medicum (1836; 10th ed. 1857).