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Adolf Meyer ( 1866-1950 )

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Adolf Meyer (1866-1950)

Adolf Meyer was born on September 13, 1866 in Niederweningen, Switzerland, and died March 17th, 1950 at the age of 83. Adolf is the son of a Zwinglian minister. Adolf was trained as a neurologist under Auguste Forel at the University of Zurich. In the course of his studies, he spent a year abroad in Edinburgh, London, and Paris, where he worked under both John Hughlings Jackson and J-M Charcot. In 1892 Adolf moved to the United States after receiving his doctoral degree where he proceeded to become what is now known as the dominant figure in American psychiatry. He was an influential psychiatrist, neurologist, neuropathologist, and neuroanatomist taking part in multiple areas of medical studies. Meyer contributed significantly to the medical literature on psychiatry by writing papers; Adolf 's papers were collected and published in Collected Papers (1950-1952).
When arriving in the United States he continued to go to University of Chicago, where he lectured on and practiced neurology. Adolf Meyer participated in the positions of a Neuropathologist, he took part in different positions at different institutes. While at Kanakee State Hospital in Illinois, he was the neuropathologist, Adolf was the director at Worecester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and was Chief of the Pathological Institutes of New York 's State Mental Hospital. In 1908 a Medical School was established and Adolf took on the responsibility of the professorship. While at Kankakee,

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