Karl Heilbronner

Karl Heilbronner (21 November 1869, in Nürnberg – 8 September 1914, in Utrecht) was a German psychiatrist.

He specialized in research of apraxia, depression and obsessive behavior disorders.

[1] He studied medicine at the University of Munich as a pupil of Hubert von Grashey, obtaining his doctorate in 1894.

He later worked as an assistant to Carl Wernicke at Breslau (1894–98), followed by service as a senior physician under Eduard Hitzig at the University of Halle.

In 1903 he succeeded Theodor Ziehen as a full professor of psychiatry at the University of Utrecht.