Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a... Wikipedia
Born: February 23, 1883, Oldenburg, Germany
Died: February 26, 1969 (age 86 years), Basel, Switzerland
Influenced: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricœur, and more
Influenced by: Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and more
Education: Heidelberg University
Parents: Carl Wilhelm Jaspers and Henriette Tantzen