About Wilhelm Weygandt
Lived 1870 – 1939 (aged 68). Wilhelm Weygandt was a psychiatrist, university teacher, physician and philosopher.
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."
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.
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Who was Wilhelm Weygandt?
German psychiatrist
When was Wilhelm Weygandt born?
Wilhelm Weygandt was born on 30 September 1870 in Wiesbaden.
When did Wilhelm Weygandt die?
Wilhelm Weygandt died on 22 January 1939 in Wiesbaden.
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Wilhelm Weygandt was a psychiatrist, university teacher, physician and philosopher.
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Wilhelm Weygandt's recorded nationality: German Reich.
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