Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (
August 12,
1762 -
August 25,
1836), was a
German physician. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and a cultivated critical faculty.He was born at
Langensalza,
Thuringia and educated at
Weimar, where his father held the office of court physician to the grand duchess. In 1780 he entered the
University of Jena, and in the following year went on to
Göttingen, where in 1783 he graduated in
medicine. After assisting his father for some years at Weimar, he was called in 1793 to the chair of medicine at Jena, receiving at the same time the positions of court physician and professor of
Pathology at Weimar. In
1798 Frederick William III of Prussia granted him the position director of the medical college and generally of state medical affairs at the
Charité, in
Berlin. He filled the chair of
pathology and therapeutics in the
Humboldt University,
Prussia founded in 1809, and in 1810 became councillor of state.
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Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Le docteur Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (Langensalza (
Thuringe),
12 août 1762 -
Berlin,
25 août 1836) était le premier médecin du roi de Prusse
Frédéric III et de la reine
Louise de Prusse. Il est reconnu comme le précurseur le plus célèbre de la médecine préventive anti-vieillissement. À travers son livre Makrobiotik oder die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlängern (l’Art de prolonger la vie par la macrobiotique), paru en
1796, Hufeland devient très connu à son époque. C'est le père de la chronobiopathologie.
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Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Usò l'
idroterapia e le cure termali, coniò il termine "macrobiotico" per indicare le capacità di prolungare la vita umana, ripreso poi da Oshawa con altra accezione. Elogiò il potere dell'infiammazione, della febbre e della suppurazione.
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Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland