Prof. Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Abstract

PROF. RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING, an eminent German psychiatrist and a pioneer in the scientific study of sex, was born at Mannheim on August 14, 1840. He received his medical education at Heidelberg under Fredreich and at Zurich under Griesinger, and after qualifying at Heidelberg in 1863 spent five years as an assistant in the Illenau Asylum. In 1872 he was appointed professor of psychiatry at the recently founded University at Strasbourg, and in the following year he accepted an invitation to occupy the corresponding chair at Graz, where he remained until 1889, when he succeeded Leidesdorf at the First Psychiatric Clinic at Vienna. In 1892 he succeeded Meynert at the Second Psychiatric Clinic, which he directed until his retirement in 1902. He died on December 22, 1902.