Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (died 1952)

Ernst Rüdin

Swiss-born German geneticist (1874–1952)

Ernst Rüdin was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies,…