Schreber, Daniel Gottlieb Moritz, 1808-1861

Daniel Gottlob Moritz Schreber (15 October 1808 – 10 November 1861) was a German medical doctor and university lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 1844, he became director of the Leipzig Heilanstalt (sanatorium). His publications predominantly dealt with the subject of children's health and the social consequences of urbanization at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Die Eigenthümlichkeiten des kindlichen Organismus im gesunden und kranken Zustande (1839), literally: "Peculiarities of the child's organism in health and illness" Der Hausfreund als Erzieher und Führer zu Familienglück und Menschenveredelung (1861), "The friend of the family as an educator and leader to family happiness and human refinement" Die ärztliche Zimmergymnastik (1855), "Medical indoor gymnastics", his best selling piece of work