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German psychiatrist, neurologist, psychopathologist and theorist of constitutional psychology.
Ernst Kretschmer (1888-1964) was born in Wüstenrot near Heilbronn, Kingdom of Württemberg, as the son of a country parson.
He attended Cannstatt Gymnasium, one of the oldest Latin schools in Württemberg.
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Enrolled at Tübingen University in 1906, he initially read philosophy, history, literature and art history but changed to medicine at the universities of Munich and Hamburg one year later. He completed his residency in Tübingen as an assistant to Robert Gaupp, who also supervised Kretschmer’s 1914 doctoral thesis, Wahnbildung und manisch-depressiver Symptomkomplex (Development of Delusion and Manic-Depressive Symptom Complex).
During WWI, he worked at the neurological department of a reserve military hospital in Bad Mergentheim. His treatment of traumatised soldiers included the use of suggestion, electricity and darkroom isolation. In 1917, he voiced the controversial opinion tha