Ernst Grunthal
- Category : 1894-births
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 1/4 - Investigating / Opportunist
- Definition : Split - Small (2,5,7,8,10,26,29)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Unexpected 3
Biography
German-Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist. In 1936, with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation, he founded the Brain Anatomy Institute in the Waldau Psychiatric Clinic, which he headed until 1965. From 1943 to 1970 he also headed the psychopharmacological laboratory of JR Geigy AG in Waldau. In 1944 he received the venia docendi for psychiatry and brain anatomy. From 1954 he was associate professor at the University of Bern. In 1965 he retired. He wrote works on brain research as well as medical-historical-philosophical writings. He died on 5 January 1972 in Bern at age 77.