​HUFELAND, CHRISTOPH WILHELM (1762-1836), German physician, as born at Langensalza on the 12th of August 1762. His early education was carried on at Weimar, where his father held the office of court physician to the grand duchess. In 1780 he entered the university oi ]ena, and in the following year proceeded to Gottingen, where in 178 3 he graduated in medicine. After assisting his father for some years at Weimar, he was called in 1795 to the chair of medicine at ]ena, receiving at the same time the dignities of court physician and councillor at Weimar. In 1798 he was placed at the head of the medical college and generally of state medical affairs in Berlin. He filled the chair of pathology and therapeutics in the university of Berlin, founded in 1809, and in 1810 became councillor of state. He d1ed at Berlin on the 2 5th of August 1836. Hufeland is celebrated as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany. and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and cultivated and critical faculty. The most uidcly known of his many writings is the treatise entitled Mokrobzotzk, oder dze Kunst, das rnenschlrche Leben zu wrlangern (1796), which was translated into many languages Of his practical works, the System of Practzcal .Medzctne (System der praktzschen Hezlkunde, 1818-1828) is the most elaborate. From Q/$95 to 1835 he published a Journal der praktzschen Arznet und undarsnm/eunde Hisautoblography was published in 1863 There are sketches of his life and labours by Augustin and Stourdza (1837)