Charles Binet-Sanglé

Charles Binet-Sanglé (4 July 1868 – 14 November 1941) was a French military doctor and psychologist, who notably was the first to broadly and thoroughly question the mental health of Jesus, which he did in his four-volume work La Folie de Jésus. It sparked controversy and particularly affected conservative Christians. Albert Schweitzer, among others, referred to this work in his medical dissertation Die psychiatrische Beurteilung Jesu: Darstellung und Kritik (The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism, 1913). Schweitzer writes in his booklet Out of My Life and Thoughts, referring to Charles Binet-Sanglé and other authors dealing with the mental health of Jesus:

His other most influential work, (The Human Stud-Farm), suggested that euthanasia was necessary in some cases, and that a eugenic institute must be founded to encourage education of the improvement for the human race. The book was heavily censored in France.

He was decorated Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1912 and promoted Officer of the same order in 1922.