He was, for example, instrumental in the establishment of a medicinal spa where he also practised as a spa doctor. When his mentor Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Goldhagen died in 1788, Reil became a full professor of medicine and was appointed to city physician (municipal medical officer). In 1787, he was appointed to associate professor in Halle, which was to become his adopted home. Having studied medicine in Göttingen (1779) and Halle (1780–82), Reil went to Berlin to work as an intern under Markus Herz, at whose house he also lived, to obtain his license to practice medicine and then spent some years as a general practitioner in Norden (East Frisia). Reil ist considered the most influential German-speaking physician of the founding era of psychiatry (the "German Pinel"). He represented a Romantic medicine informed by the Enlightenment and was the first to use the term "psychiatry" in an essay published in 1808. He was a professor of medicine in Halle and Berlin and also served as a medical officer for the Prussian state (e.g., in improving field hospitals). Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) was born in Rhaude (East Frisia, Kingdom of Prussia) as the son of a pastor. German physician, proponent of Romantic medicine, coined the term "psychiatry"
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