Carl Wernicke -- 1848-1905. Born in Poland, educated in Germany. Anatomy, Psychiatry, neuropathology. Discoverer of the left cerebral hemisphere's speech centre. It is now named Wernicke's area after him.
KarlWernicke was born in the small town of Tarnowitz in Upper Silesia, which was then a part of Prussia, where his father was a civil servant.
Wernicke was only 26 years of age when he, in 1874, published "Der aphasische Symptomenkompleks" in which he first described sensory aphasia, localised at the temporal lobes, as well as alexia and agraphia.
Wernicke did not believe in specific psychiatric disease entities, and he was an ardent adversary of Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), considering the latter's classification as not being sufficiently scientific.
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