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E H Ackerknecht

Publications and source records attributed to E H Ackerknecht.

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[Friedrich Theodor Althoff (1859-1908) and the German universities around 1900].

Usually the diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is regarded as the creator of German supremacy in academic, especially medical education. Actually this role was played by the "bureaucrat" Friedrich Althoff (1839-1909), who directed German education from 1882 to 1907. His greatest accomplishment was the selection of the best professors.

Education, Medical↗

Cuvier and medicine.

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Anatomy, Comparative↗

[History of the theory of psychic energy].

The notion of energy became dominant in physics around 1850. It was transferred into psychology by Th. Fechner, W. Wundt, F. Nietzsche and others. For S. Freud and his pupils it became basic. During the last decades it has turned marginal.

Europe↗