[Dietrich Geotg Kieser (1779-1862)--merely a romantic physician?]

As an adherent of Schelling Dietrich Georg Kieser (1779-1862) was an outstanding representative of the German medical romanticism. From 1812 to his death he was professor of medicine in Jena. Despite natural philosophical-speculative theories his general pathology contains dynamic views of the disease including psychosomatic opinions. The basis for this is the holism of man under the aspect of developmental history. Kieser did an eminent good work in the field of medical practice and organisation. He was the head of several clinics and from 1847 he was the first professor in Jena who only worked in the field of psychiatry. 1858 he was elected president of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinic German Academy of Scientists.