Emil Kraepelin practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Emil Kraepelin as German psychiatrist (1856–1926).
Emil Kraepelin was born at Neustrelitz in 1856. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Leipzig University and University of Würzburg.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Imperial University of Dorpat, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Emil Kraepelin died in 1926, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Imperial University of Dorpat, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
