title: [Poet-physicians in German literature].
abstract: Starting with standards arising from the relationship between medicine and art in classical antiquity, biblical tradition and teutonic-pagan antiquity, this article roams through german literature from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, from Hildegard of Bingen to Gottfried Benn and Alfred Döblin, guided by the question, how strongly medical knowledge and medical practise are reflected in the poetry of writing physicians. Individual dispositions and epoque-specific features are discussed. Special attention is given to Paul Fleming and Angelus Silesius, Albrecht von Haller and Friedrich Schiller, romanticism and Georg Büchner.
authors.affiliation: Freies deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurter Goethe-Museum.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perels
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Dichterärzte in der deutschen Literatur.