Wilhelm Griesinger

After receiving his doctorate, he worked in several locations, including Winnethal in Württemberg, in Stuttgart (private practice), in the medical clinic at Tübingen, and at the University of Kiel.

In 1845 Griesinger published his influential textbook Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten.

During his stay in Egypt, he gained experience in regards to tropical diseases, and as a result published Klinische und anatomische Beobachtungen über die Krankheiten von Aegypten (1854) and Infectionskrankheiten (1857).

Griesinger is remembered for initiating reforms in treatment of the mentally ill as well as introducing changes to the existing asylum system.

He believed in integration of the mentally ill into society, and proposed that short-term hospitalization be combined with close cooperation of natural support systems.