Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm (Neue Deutsche Biographie / Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie)

The Deutsche Biographie entry for Hufeland is the authoritative biographical reference used in this case. It carries the Neue Deutsche Biographie article (volume 10, 1974, by Markwart Michler) and the older Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie article (volume 13, 1881, by Ernst Gurlt). The NDB text states directly that Hufeland was physician to the leading figures of Weimar classicism: “Mit den damals Weimar zierenden großen Geistern, wie Wieland, Herder, Goethe, Schiller hatte er nicht nur Umgang, sondern hatte Gelegenheit, sie als ihr Arzt noch genauer kennen zu lernen.” The entry gives his life dates (born 12 August 1762 in Langensalza; died 25 August 1836 in Berlin), his 1793 call to a Jena professorship, and his 1801 call to Berlin as royal physician (Leibarzt) to the royal family, director of the Collegium Medicum, and first physician at the Charité in succession to C.G. Selle, followed in 1810 by his appointment as professor and first dean of the medical faculty at the new Berlin university. It records the treatise as Die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlängern (first edition 1796/97), retitled Makrobiotik from the third edition (1805). These facts anchor the practitioner entry and the “exclusive access” stage of the case.