# David Veit

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For the British Olympic hockey player, see [David Veit (field hockey)](/source/David_Veit_(field_hockey)).

**David Veit** (8 November 1771, in [Breslau](/source/Breslau) – 15 April 1814) was a medical doctor and writer from the Kingdom of Prussia.

## Life

His father, Juda Veit (1716–1786), was a banker, and his brother, [Simon Veit](/source/Simon_Veit), was the husband of [Moses Mendelssohn](/source/Moses_Mendelssohn)'s daughter [Brendel](/source/Dorothea_von_Schlegel), making David uncle to the painters [Johannes](/source/Johannes_Veit) and [Philipp Veit](/source/Philipp_Veit). During David Veit's time as a student, he began a correspondence with [Rahel Varnhagen von Ense](/source/Rahel_Varnhagen_von_Ense), in which Veit also describes meeting the poet [Goethe](/source/Goethe). Veit and [Abraham Mendelssohn](/source/Abraham_Mendelssohn) travelled to study in Paris before Veit moved to Hamburg in 1799, where he worked as a doctor and writer and became associated with figures including [Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus](/source/Johann_Albert_Heinrich_Reimarus), [Friedrich Christoph Perthes](/source/Friedrich_Christoph_Perthes), [Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi](/source/Friedrich_Heinrich_Jacobi) and [Johann Gottlieb Fichte](/source/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte).

## Works

- *De organorum corporis humani tam energia seu activitate interna quam cum organis sociis connexione sen sympathia*, Halle 1797
- *Allgemeine theoretische und praktische Grundsätze der chemischen Affinität oder Wahlanziehung zum gemeinnützigen Gebrauch für Naturforscher, Chemisten, Aerzte und Apotheker*, Berlin 1794
- *J. A. H. Reimarus nach zurückgelegten Fünfzig Jahren seiner medizinischen Laufbahn. Ein biographischer Beytrag zur Feyer des 29. Aprils*, Hamburg 1807

## Bibliography

- (in German) [Ludmilla Assing](/source/Ludmilla_Assing): *Briefwechsel zwischen Rahel und David Veit*, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1861
- (in German) L. Geiger: *Briefe von und an David Veit*, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag Martin Philippsons, Berlin 1916
- (in German) T. Zondek: *Dr. med. David Veit (1771-1814)*, in: *Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter* 8, 1970, S. 120–128
- (in German) T. Zondek: *Dr. med. David Veit (1771-1814). Eine Gestalt aus der Emanzipationszeit*, in: *Bulletin des Leo Baeck Institutes*, 15. Jg., Neue Folge, Nr. 52, S.49-77

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