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Carl Wernicke
Carl Wernicke was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He is known for his influential research into the pathological effects of specific forms of encephalopathy and also the study of receptive aphasia, both of which are commonly associated with Wernicke's name and referred to as Wernicke encephalopathy and Wernicke's aphasia, respectively. His research, along with tha…
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science · German physician and neuropathologist (1848–1905) · anatomist · physician · neuroscientist · psychiatrist · university teacher · neurologist · pathologist · also Carl Wernicke, Karl Wernicke, Wernicke
Born 15 May 1848 · Died 15 June 1905 · Q48965
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1905· 2 entries
Died 1905-06-15.
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Due to injuries suffered from a bicycle accident in the Thuringian Forest
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1904· 1 entry
Wernicke left that university and worked at the University of Halle, heading its Psychiatry and Neurology Clinic
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1897· 1 entry
With Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950), he founded the journal Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie
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1892· 1 entry
Karl Kahlbaum described paranoia based on a case study that Wernicke was familiar with
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1885· 1 entry
Succeeded his mentor Professor Neumann and served as associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at Breslau, where he also attained a conference chair
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1878· 1 entry
Wernicke founded a private neuropsychiatric practice in Berlin and published numerous articles until he left the practice in 1881
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1875· 1 entry
Wernicke was appointed the first assistant in the Charité in Berlin under Karl Westphal, where he stayed until 1878 studying psychiatry and nervous diseases
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1874· 1 entry
Wernicke published Der Aphasische Symptomencomplex
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1870· 1 entry
The Franco-Prussian War broke out, where Wernicke served as an army surgeon
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1848· 2 entries
Born 1848-05-15.
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In Tarnowitz, a small town in Upper Silesia, Prussia, now Tarnowskie Góry, Poland
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