Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Richard von Krafft-Ebing was born in 1840 in Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he became interested in psychiatry. After working in asylums and serving as an army doctor in the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of psychiatry at Strasbourg in 1872, and later at Graz and at the University of Vienna, where he was a leading figure in the field. He wrote a widely used textbook of psychiatry and many studies of forensic psychiatry, the use of psychiatry in the courts. His best-known book, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), is a medical study of human sexual behavior and its disorders, based on case histories, written for doctors and lawyers. It was expanded through many editions and introduced several medical terms still in use. Krafft-Ebing argued that many people who came before the courts should be treated as patients rather than criminals. He died in Graz in 1902.

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