Eugen Bleuler

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Bleuler (April 30, 1857 – July 15, 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist most
notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and
for coining the term „schizophrenia.“ Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a
small town near Zürich in Switzerland, to Johann Rudolf Bleuler, a
wealthy farmer, and Pauline Bleuler-Bleuler. He studied medicine in
Zürich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich after which he
returned to Zürich to take a post as an intern at the Burghölzli, a
university hospital. In 1886 Bleuler became the director of a
psychiatric clinic at Rheinau, a hospital located in an old monastery on
an island in the Rhine. It was noted at the time for being backward, and
Bleuler set about improving conditions for the patients resident there.