2 Quotes & Sayings By Ernst Wurdack
Ernst Wurdack was born in Berlin and brought up in Königsberg and Dresden. His interests lay in the fields of literature and art. He graduated from high school in 1878 and attended the University of Berlin, where he studied medicine and philosophy and was awarded a doctorate in 1885. He studied neurology at the Freiburg Hospital, where he specialized in experimental psychology under Eugen Bleuler
In 1886 Wurdack moved to Paris, where he worked as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. In 1890 Wurdack became professor of psychiatry at the University of Breslau, where he remained until his death. He also served as a member of the board of directors of several psychiatric institutes throughout Germany, as well as a member of the medical council at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry, a director of a private mental-health clinic, and a professor at several universities including those in Münster, Breslau, Königsberg, Leipzig, Freiburg i.Br., Hamburg i.W., Erlangen i.B., Tübingen i.B., and Berlin.
In addition to his medical work Wurdack wrote frequently on topics such as history of psychiatry and psychopathology. He bequeathed his private papers to the Historical Institute for Psychiatry at the University of Breslau upon his death in 1927 after which they were lost.