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Emil Kraepelin
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German psychiatrist (1856–1926)
Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who lived from 1856 to 1926 and is considered one of the foundational figures in modern psychiatry. His work establishing systematic classification systems for mental disorders laid crucial groundwork for how psychiatric conditions are understood and diagnosed today.
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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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- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,234x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,996x
- Principles of Optics
· 1999 · cited 7,895x
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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.
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