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Dietrich Georg von Kieser
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Dietrich Georg von Kieser (24 August 1779 – 11 October 1862)[1] was a German physician born in Harburg.
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He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Göttingen, receiving his doctorate from the latter institution in 1804. For most of his career he was a professor at the University of Jena, where from 1824 to 1862 he served as a "full professor".[2][3]
He was an advocate of balneology, and beginning in 1813 was a physician at the therapeutic spas at Heilbad Berka/Ilm. While working as a professor at the University of Jena, Kieser operated a private ophthalmology clinic from 1831 to 1847, and from 1847 until 1858 he was director of the mental hospital in Jena.[4]
With Adam von Eschenmayer and Christian Friedrich Nasse, he published the 12-volume Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus ("Archive for animal magnetism").[3] Kieser was politically active throughout his career; in October 1817 with philosophers Lorenz Oken and Jakob Friedrich Fries, he partook in the historic Wartburg Festival.[5] In 1858 he was named president of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.[4] He died in Jena.
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A magnesium sulfate mineral known as kieserite is named after him.[6]