Theodor Meynert

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1833 – 1892

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Who was Theodor Meynert?

Theodor Hermann Meynert was a German-Austrian neuropathologist and anatomist born in Dresden. Meynert believed that disturbances in brain development could be a predisposition for psychiatric illness and that certain psychoses are reversible.

In 1861 he earned his medical doctorate, and in 1875 became director of the psychiatric clinic associated with the University of Vienna. Some of his better known students in Vienna were Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, who in 1883 worked at Meynert's psychiatric clinic, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who introduced fever treatment for syphilis. Meynert later distanced himself from Freud because of the latter's involvement with practices such as hypnosis. Meynert also ridiculed Freud's idea of male hysteria. Other famous students of Meynert's were Russian neuropsychiatrist Sergei Korsakoff, German neuropathologist Carl Wernicke and Swiss neuroanatomist Auguste-Henri Forel. Meynert's work was an important influence in the career of German neuropathologist Paul Flechsig.

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Born
Jun 15, 1833
Dresden
Nationality
  • Austria
  • Germany
Education
  • University of Vienna
Died
May 31, 1892
Klosterneuburg

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on July 23, 2013

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