Dietrich Georg von Kieser

Dietrich Georg von Kieser (1779 to 1862) was a German medical doctor born in Harburg. He studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Göttingen, took his doctorate at Göttingen in 1804, and in 1806 became city and district physician of Northeim. For most of his career he was a professor at the University of Jena, where he held a full professorship from 1824 until his death. He advocated balneology and from 1813 worked as a physician at the therapeutic spas at Berka on the Ilm. At Jena he also ran a private ophthalmology clinic from 1831 to 1847 and from 1847 until 1858 directed the mental hospital. With Adolph Carl August von Eschenmayer and Christian Friedrich Nasse he published the twelve volume Archive for animal magnetism. He took part in the Wartburg Festival of 1817, was named president of the Leopoldina academy in 1858, and wrote on physiatrics, pathology and plant anatomy before dying in Jena.