Doctor to the King of Prussia and pioneer of inoculation.∼Physician, Medical Researcher, and Author. Coiner of the term "macrobiotic". He was born into a medical family, as his father was Court Physician at Weimar. He studied medicine at the University of Jena in 1780 and then transferred to the University of Goettingen, where he received his medical degree in 1783. After graduation, he worked in his father's practice and then took it over. He held the title of Professor of Medicine at the University of Jena from 1793 to 1801 while at the same time being named Court Physician in Weimar. He knew Goethe and Schiller well and was their personal doctor. He was called to Berlin in 1801, where he became doctor to the family of Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia as well as a professor of the medical college and director of the Charite Hospital. He followed the royal family into exile during the Napoleonic Wars, and upon their return was named the first Dean of the medical faculty at the new University of Berlin in 1810. He also concerned himself with caring for the poor, ran a private practice, where he treated his poor patients for free, and was the head of the Military Academy and the Prussian Department of Health. He was noted for leading smallpox vaccination in Prussia and founded the first morgue in Germany. He was also a noted author with works on Mesmer, eradication of smallpox, and public health care. He was one of the first to promote natural healing and invented the concept of macrobiotics. He founded the Journal der Practischen Arzneykunde und Wundarzneykunst and corresponded with Samuel Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, though they later had a falling out. In 1863 his autobiography was published. A street in Berlin is named in his honor as well as Asteroid 10839 Hufeland and the teaching hospital at the University of Goettingen. The Hufeland Medal has been awarded since 1958 for contributions to public health and there are a number of other awards given in his name.