Wilhelm Weygandt
Wilhelm Christian Jakob Karl Weygandt (30 September 1870 in Wiesbaden – 22 January 1939) was a German psychiatrist. From 1908-1934, he was director of the insane asylum Staatskrankenanstalt Friedrichsberg in Hamburg, and from 1919-1934 professor of Psychiatry at the newly founded University of Hamburg. He was a Nazi, a racist thinker, and condemned Expressionism and other modern art forms as "degenerate art."
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| Born | Wilhelm Christian Jakob Karl Weygandt September 30, 1870 |
| Died | January 22, 1939 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Strasbourg |
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| Fields | Physics |
In 1901 he published his Atlas und Grundriss der Psychiatrie, which was later used by Leopold Szondi as the source for most of the photographs of the Szondi test.[1][2][3]
References
- Szondi, L. (1952) Das dritte Buch: Triebpathologie, ch.25, table 19
- Eranos , Volume 45 p.253
External links
- Works by or about Wilhelm Weygandt at Internet Archive
- Newspaper clippings about Wilhelm Weygandt in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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