Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing) (14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902) was an Austro–German psychiatrist who was born in Mannheim in Baden, Germany. He was the author of the seminal work Psychopathia Sexualis.
Krafft-Ebing studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he specialized in psychiatry, and later practiced in psychiatric asylums.
After leaving his work in the asylums, he pursued a career in psychiatry, forensics, and hypnosis.
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