1856 - 1926
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (; German: [ˈeːmiːl 'kʁɛːpəliːn]; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Kraepelin believed the chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Kraepelin has received more than 397,513 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Emil Kraepelin is the 36th most popular physician (up from 49th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from Germany (up from 343rd in 2019) and the 6th 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, Emil Kraepelin ranks 36 out of 509. Before him are Camillo Golgi, Al-Zahrawi, Paul Ehrlich, Willem Einthoven, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. After him are Rita Levi-Montalcini, Samuel Hahnemann, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Hua Tuo, Ambroise Paré, and Philippe Pinel.
1843 - 1926
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 30
936 - 1013
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 31
1854 - 1915
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 32
1860 - 1927
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 33
1873 - 1944
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 34
1845 - 1922
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 35
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 36
1909 - 2012
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 37
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 38
1883 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 39
200 - 208
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 40
1510 - 1590
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 41
1745 - 1826
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 42
Among people born in 1856, Emil Kraepelin ranks 11. Before him are J. J. Thomson, Woodrow Wilson, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, and Robert Peary. After him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Georgi Plekhanov, Tongzhi Emperor, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Robert Nivelle, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Among people deceased in 1926, Emil Kraepelin ranks 14. Before him are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Camillo Golgi, Gertrude Bell, Rudolph Valentino, and Mary Cassatt. After him are Aleksei Brusilov, Sunjong of Korea, Louise of Sweden, Symon Petliura, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, and John Browning.
1856 - 1940
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 5
1856 - 1924
HPI: 80.34
Rank: 6
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 7
1856 - 1924
HPI: 78.17
Rank: 8
1856 - 1932
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 9
1856 - 1920
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 11
1856 - 1879
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 12
1856 - 1918
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 13
1856 - 1875
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 14
1856 - 1920
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 15
1856 - 1924
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 16
1856 - 1921
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 17
1877 - 1926
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 8
1846 - 1926
HPI: 77.87
Rank: 9
1843 - 1926
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 10
1868 - 1926
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 11
1895 - 1926
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 12
1844 - 1926
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 13
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 14
1853 - 1926
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 15
1874 - 1926
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 16
1851 - 1926
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 17
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 18
1851 - 1926
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 19
1855 - 1926
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, Emil Kraepelin ranks 317 out of 5,289. Before him are Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Otto Lilienthal (1848), Hans Eysenck (1916), Fritz Sauckel (1894), and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486). After him are Peter Behrens (1868), Sophie Scholl (1921), Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), Robert Bosch (1861), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), and Karl Haushofer (1869).
1928 - 2007
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 311
1503 - 1559
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 312
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 313
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 314
1894 - 1946
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 315
1486 - 1535
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 316
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 317
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 318
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 319
1131 - 1182
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 320
1861 - 1942
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 321
1798 - 1860
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 322
1869 - 1946
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 323
Among physicians born in Germany, Emil Kraepelin ranks 6. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Robert Koch (1843), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Georgius Agricola (1494). After him are Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Theodor Morell (1886), and Franz Joseph Gall (1758).
1911 - 1979
HPI: 84.44
Rank: 1
1843 - 1910
HPI: 84.13
Rank: 2
1864 - 1915
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 3
1734 - 1815
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 4
1494 - 1555
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 5
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 6
1755 - 1843
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 7
1883 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 8
1884 - 1951
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 9
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 10
1886 - 1948
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 11
1758 - 1828
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 12