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Krafft-Ebing was born on August 14, 1840 in Mannheim, Germany.
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Krafft-Ebing was born on August 14, 1840 in Mannheim, Germany.
Krafft-Ebing studied at Heidelberg, Zürich, Vienna, and Prague.
In 1864 Krafft-Ebing became assistant physician at the Illenau lunatic asylum and after four years went to Baden-Baden as a specialist for nervous and mental diseases, serving until 1872, when he was appointed professor of psychiatry at the University of Strasbourg. The following year he went to Graz as director of the national insane asylum and in 1880 was named professor of psychiatry and of the diseases of the nervous system at the University of Graz, remaining there until 1889, when he accepted the same professorship at the University of Vienna. He returned to Graz in 1902 to continue work at his private sanatorium at Mariengrün, near Graz, where he died on December 22, 1902. A pioneer in the clinical analysis of paranoia, he was the author of numerous works dealing with pathological psychology and neurology, many of which have become standard texts in the field. His works include Grundzüge der Kriminalpsychologie (1872), Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie (1875), Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie auf klinischer Grundlage (1879), and in English translations, An Experimental Study in the Domain of Hypnotism (1889), Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), translated into seven languages, Psychosis Menstrualis (1902), and Textbook of Insanity (1905).
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