Education
He studied medicine in Marburg and Freiburg, earning his medical doctorate in 1887.
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August Cramer
Edit Profilepsychiatrist university professor
Career
In 1889 be began work at a mental asylum in Eberswalde, and in 1895 received his habilitation in psychiatry at the University of Göttingen, where he subsequently became a professor and director of the psychiatric clinic. At Göttingen he helped establish the Provinzial-Jugendheim, an institution for treatment and education of psychopathic youth. Cramer published numerous essays on clinical psychiatry, brain pathology, pathological anatomy, et al.
Among his better known books were a treatise on forensic psychiatry titled Gerichtliche Psychiatrie.
Ein Leitfaden für Mediziner und Juristen, and a textbook of nervous disorders in children that he co-authored with Ludwig Bruns (1858–1916) and Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950) called Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten im Kindesalter.
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Nationality
Swiss-German