Emil Kraepelin

Emil Kraepelin was born in 1856 in Neustrelitz, in northern Germany. He studied medicine at Leipzig and Würzburg, and in Leipzig he worked in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt, a founder of experimental psychology, where he studied the effects of substances such as alcohol and caffeine on the mind. He became a professor of psychiatry at Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) in 1886, then at Heidelberg and from 1903 in Munich. Kraepelin believed that mental illnesses had mainly biological causes and could be classified by their symptoms and course over time. In the successive editions of his textbook of psychiatry, he grouped illnesses into categories and distinguished dementia praecox, later called schizophrenia, from manic-depressive illness. His Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry presented typical cases to students. In 1917 he founded a research institute for psychiatry in Munich. His approach to classification strongly influenced later diagnostic systems. He died in Munich in 1926.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; in his last years he was interested in Buddhist teachings. Source: Wikipedia