CHRISTOPH WILHELM See also:

• CHRISTOPH WILHELM HUFELAND (1762-1836)
• HUFELAND, GOTTLIEB (1760-1817)

HUFELAND (1762-1836)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German physician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LANGENSALZA

Langensalza on the 12th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1762 . His See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• EDUCATION

education was carried on at See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, where his See also:

• FATHER

father held the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court physician to the See also:

• GRAND

grand duchess . In 1780 he entered the university of See also:

• JENA

Jena, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year proceeded to See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, where in 1783 he graduated in See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine . After assisting his father for some years at Weimar, he was called in 1793 to the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of medicine at Jena, receiving at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the dignities of court physician and councillor at Weimar . In 1798 he was placed at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the medical See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college and generally of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state medical affairs in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin . He filled the chair of See also:

• PATHOLOGY (from Gr. raBos, suffering)

pathology and See also:

• THERAPEUTICS (Gr. BepaaeuTLKIi, Sc. TEXVrt, from Beparebsty, to serve)

therapeutics in the university of Berlin, founded in 1809, and in 1810 became councillor of state . He died at Berlin on the 25th of August 1836 . See also:

• HUFELAND, CHRISTOPH WILHELM (1762-1836)
• HUFELAND, GOTTLIEB (1760-1817)

Hufeland is celebrated as the most eminent See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical physician of his time in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and as the author of numerous See also:

• WORKS

works displaying extensive See also:

• READING

reading and cultivated and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty . The most widely known of his many writings is the See also:

• TREATISE

treatise entitled Makrobiotik, See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

oder See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlangern (1796), which was translated into many See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . Of his practical works, the See also:

• SYSTEM

System of Practical Medicine (System der praktischen Heilkunde, 1818–1828) is the most elaborate . From 1795 to 1835 he published a See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal der praktischen Arznei and Wundarzneikunde . His autobiography was published in 1863 .

There are sketches of his See also:

• LIFE

life and labours by Augustin and Stourdza (1837) .