Wilhelm Weygandt
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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[citation needed], a racist thinker, and condemned Expressionism and other modern art forms as "degenerate art."
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Wilhelm Weygandt | |
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Born | Wilhelm Christian Jakob Karl Weygandt (1870-09-30)30 September 1870 |
Died | 22 January 1939(1939-01-22) (aged 68) |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Strasbourg |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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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]