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Wilhelm Weygandt

German psychiatrist (1870–1939) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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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]

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