• Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Dec 2023

    [Feaver Concepts in the Early Work of Poeta Medicus Friedrich Schiller].

    • Daniel Schäfer.
    • Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. 2023 Dec 1; 148 (24-25): 158915941589-1594.

    AbstractFriedrich Schiller wrote a Latin "Prüfschrift" (thesis) on fever diseases in 1780 as part of his medical studies in Stuttgart. In it, he accuses nature of aggravating inflammation through excessive resistance. This concept of fever interacts with Schiller's early literary texts: In his first drama, "Die Räuber" (1781), the two protagonists embody the two main types of fever. Accordingly, the descriptions of the two main types of fever in the "Prüfschrift" do not turn out to be "objective" either but contain positive and negative connotations: In a sense, personified heroes and hypocrites are medically juxtaposed and pathologised. In another early poem about the plague (1782), Schiller also interpreted and used fever as an expression of human vitality and natural power, as an anthropological sign for the interconnectedness of soul and body: soul forces are revealed in fever, and the drama of human existence becomes particularly clear in the struggle between nature and disease.Thieme. All rights reserved.

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