Physician

Emil Kraepelin

1856 - 1926

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His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2024). Emil Kraepelin is the 57th most popular physician (down from 43rd in 2024), the 374th most popular biography from Germany (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Physician.

Emil Kraepelin is most famous for his work in psychiatry and his contributions to the classification of mental disorders. He was one of the first psychiatrists to distinguish between dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and manic-depressive insanity (bipolar disorder).

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Among Physicians

Among physicians, Emil Kraepelin ranks 57 out of 726Before him are Ronald Ross, Alexis Carrel, Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, and Gabor Maté. After him are Emil Theodor Kocher, Charles Nicolle, Thutmose IV, Philippe Pinel, Samuel Hahnemann, and Gerhard Domagk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Emil Kraepelin ranks 12Before him are Woodrow Wilson, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Louis Sullivan, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, and Napoléon, Prince Imperial. After him are Georgi Plekhanov, Robert Peary, Ivan Franko, Émile Picard, Robert Nivelle, and Henry Morgenthau Sr.. Among people deceased in 1926, Emil Kraepelin ranks 15Before him are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, Sunjong of Korea, Mary Cassatt, and Symon Petliura. After him are Kim Hyong-jik, Gertrude Bell, Rudolph Valentino, Aleksei Brusilov, Louise of Sweden, and Nikola Pašić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Kraepelin ranks 374 out of NaNBefore him are Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Hermann Müller (1876), Adolf Dassler (1900), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Wilhelm Grimm (1786). After him are Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Franz Halder (1884), George Paget Thomson (1892), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Pope Victor II (1018), and Regiomontanus (1436).

Among Physicians In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Emil Kraepelin ranks 7Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Robert Koch (1843), Georgius Agricola (1494), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884). After him are Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), and Johannes Peter Müller (1801).

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