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Carl Wernicke
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Early Life and Education
Born in Tarnowitz, Prussia, Wernicke demonstrated precocious aptitude for detailed anatomical study. He received his medical degree from the University of Breslau in 1870. His early medical career was marked by an intense focus on neuropathology, leading him to reject the prevailing humoral theories of mental illness in favor of purely structural explanations [^2]. He studied under figures such as Theodor Meynert in Vienna, where he absorbed the prevailing anatomical focus of the time, albeit refining it through his…