Friedrich Ris

[1] He was Director of a psychiatric clinic in Rheinau, Switzerland.

Ris was born in Glarus, the son of merchant Frederick and Maria née Schmid.

He went to school at Glarus before going to the University of Zurich and received a medical degree in 1890 with a dissertation on kidney surgery under Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein.

He took an interest in entomology even as a young boy and published his first note on insects at the age of 19.

After obtaining his medical degree, he worked as a ship doctor, travelling to the Americas and Asia and in 1892 moved to the University Hospital in Zurich and in 1895 he worked with the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in Rheinau.