births
February 23, 1883
Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)
Karl Jaspers
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 distinction between "primary" and "secondary" delusions.