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Also known as Emil Wilhelm Magnus Georg Kraepelin, Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin

German psychiatrist (1856–1926)

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Emil Wilhelm Magnus Georg Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist and university teacher. Born in Neustrelitz in 1856, he died in Munich in 1926. He held citizenship in the Weimar Republic and worked in Munich and Heidelberg. His academic career included positions at the Imperial University of Dorpat, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Heidelberg University.

Kraepelin was educated at Leipzig University and the University of Würzburg. His doctoral advisors were Franz von Rinecker and Wilhelm Wundt, and he was a student of Bernhard von Gudden. He served as a doctoral advisor to Ernst Kretschmer. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.

Among his works are *Psychiatrie*, *Introduction à la psychiatrie clinique*, *The university man and the alcohol question*, *Die Königliche Psychiatrische Klinik im München*, and *Lebensschicksale deutscher Forscher*. He had a sibling named Karl Kraepelin.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1856
Died
1926
Works
108

Top works

  • The university man and the alcohol question
  • Psychiatrie
  • Introduction à la psychiatrie clinique
  • Die Königliche Psychiatrische Klinik im München
  • Lebensschicksale deutscher Forscher

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1920-08-26
Active to
2020-12-16

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Total plays
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Key facts

Born
( 1856-02-15 ) 15 February 1856, Neustrelitz , Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , German Confederation
Died
7 October 1926 (1926-10-07) (aged 70), Munich , Bavaria , Weimar Republic
Alma mater
Leipzig University , University of Würzburg , (MBBS, 1878), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , (Dr. hab. med., 1882)
Known for
Classification of mental disorders , Kraepelinian dichotomy
Spouse
Ina Marie Marie Wilhelmine Schwabe
Children
2 sons, 6 daughters
Fields
Psychiatry
Institutions
Leipzig University , Imperial University of Dorpat , Heidelberg University , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thesis
The Place of Psychology in Psychiatry (1882)

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Encyclopedic overview

Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (/ˈkrɛpəlɪn/; German: [ˈeːmiːl 'kʁɛːpəliːn]; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. Fellow psychiatrist Hans Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identified him as helping to lay the foundation for modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric genetics.

Kraepelin believed the chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction. His theories dominated psychiatry at the start of the 20th century and, despite the later psychodynamic influence of Sigmund Freud and his disciples, enjoyed a revival at century's end. While he proclaimed his own high clinical standards of gathering information "by means of expert analysis of individual cases", he also drew on reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emil Kraepelin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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