Baron Ernst Von Feuchtersleben (1806-1849), Austrian physician, poet and philosopher, was born in Vienna on the 29th of April 1806; of an old Saxon noble family. He attended the Theresian Academy in his native city, and in 1825 entered its university as a student of medicine. In 1833 he obtained the degree of doctor of medicine, settled in Vienna as a practising surgeon, and in 1834 married. The young doctor kept up his connection with the university, where he lectured, and in 1844 was appointed dean of the faculty of medicine. A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. ... Surgery Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. ...

He cultivated the acquaintance of Franz Grillparer, HeinrichLaube, and other intellectual lights of the Viennese world, interested himself greatly in educational matters, and in 1848, while refusing the presidency of the ministry of education, accepted the appointment of under secretary of state in that department in 1848. In this capacity he attempted to introduce some important reforms in the system of education, but, discouraged by the difficulties which he encountered, he resigned in December of the following year. His health gave way, and he died at Vienna on the 3rd of September 1849. He was not only a clever physician, but a poet of fine aesthetical taste and a philosopher. Among his medical works may be mentioned: Uber das Hippokratische erste Buch von der Diat (Vienna, 1835), A rIte und Fublicum (Vienna, 1848) and Lehrbuch der ârztlichen Seelenkunde (1845). His poetical works include Gedichte (Stutt. 1836), among which is the well-known beautiful hymn, which Mendelssohn set to music, Es ist beslimmt in Gottes Rat. As a philosopher he is best known by his Zur Diätetik der Seele ("Dietetics of the soul") (Vienna, 1838), which attained great popularity, and the tendency of which, in contrast to Hufeland's Makrobiotik ("On the Art of Prolonging Life"), is to show the true way of rendering life harmonious and lovely. This work had by 1906 gone into fifty editions. Noteworthy also is his Beitrage zur Litteratur-, Kunst- und Lebenstizeorie (Vienna, 1837-1841), and an anthology, Geist der deutschen Kiassiker (Vienna, 1851; 3rd ed. 1865-1866). His collected works (with the exception of the purely medical ones)were published in 7 vols. Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people: Moses Mendelssohn (1729 - 1786), Jewish philosopher Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), composer, grandson of Moses Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847), composer and pianist, sister of Felix 3954 Mendelssohn, an asteroid. ...

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