Theobald Kerner (June 14, 1817 in Gaildorf – August 11, 1907 in Weinsberg) was a German doctor and poet and son of Justinus Kerner.From 1835 he studied medicine in Tübingen, Munich, Würzburg and Vienna. After completing his studies, he supported his father in his practice in Weinsberg from 1840.It was at this time that he met his first wife, Marie Luise Elisabeth von Hügel, née Baroness von Uexküll-Gyllenband (December 24, 1811 – June 20, 1862 in Cannstatt), who was six years his senior and whom he treated in his father's practice. Against his father's resistance, he began a relationship with her. She separated from her husband, the Eschenau landowner, chamberlain and cavalry captain Ernst Albert von Hügel, and was initially taken in by Eduard Mörike in the rectory in Cleversulzbach. In 1843 this first marriage ended in divorce. From the second marriage to Theobald Kerner, concluded on June 29, 1844 in Mergentheim, three children were born:

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