WIENER, MORRIS – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

IENER, MORRIS, M. D., of Baltimore, Md., was born in Berlin, Prussia, on the 15th day of January, 1812.
His father was jasper Wiener, Esq., a wealthy banker of that city, and his mother a Scotch lady, whose family name was Morris, born in the neighborhood
of Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of seven years, he was sent to the Joacheimsthal Gymnasium College, and graduated there in 1828.

     In 1829, he entered the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelm University, as a student of Philosophy. The following
year he was taken seriously ill, and was unable to leave his bed for upwards of a year. When sufficiently recovered to permit the fatigue of travel, by
the advice of his physicians, he left Berlin and traveled through Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, occupying about two years. The change of air and
scenes, and the excitement and interest of his journeyings, gave elasticity and health to mind and body ; and on his return in 1832, he entered the
University at Berlin, as a student of medicine, studying under Hufeland Rust, Graefe (the father), Juenken, Busch, Wolff, and others.

     From this Institution, he graduated in 1836. The succeeding five years, he practiced his profession in
his native city, filling the position of an assistant surgeon, at the Charité Hospital, under Rust. During this time he became greatly interested in
the science of homœopathy, devoting much of his leisure time to an investigation of its principles and practice. Finding that it rested on a firm and
enduring basis of truth and reason, far excelling the old system, so long practiced with such imperfect success, in healing and eradicating -disease,
his conscience and judgment would no longer permit him to follow its uncertain practice, or content himself with its unsatisfactory results ; and
with no misgivings, or feelings of regret, he left allopathy to those whose minds were less progressive, and became an earnest and zealous disciple of
the immortal Hahnemann. In 1842, he emigrated to the United States, pursuing here the practice of the new system, with gratifying success. In 1849, he
took tip his residence in Baltimore, and during his long practice, has been in the possession of a large and desirable patronage, has enjoyed a high
reputation for professional skill, has been instrumental in advancing the interests of homœopathy by every honorable means, and has held the universal
respect and esteem of all.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave