Dietrich Georg von Kieser

Dietrich Georg von Kieser (24 August 1779 – 11 October 1862)[1] was a German physician born in Harburg.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Göttingen, receiving his doctorate from the latter institution in 1804.

[2][3] He was an advocate of balneology, and beginning in 1813 was a physician at the therapeutic spas at Heilbad Berka/Ilm.

[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.