Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica.”

Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist. Wagner-Jauregg was born on March 7, 1857 in Wels, Austria. He began to study medicine at Vienna University in 1874, obtaining his doctor’s degree from the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology in 1880. He was accepted in the Psychiatric Clinic in 1883 and became the Chief in 1887. In 1889 he was appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Graz and Director of the Neuro-Psychiatric Clinic. In 1893 he became Extraordinary Professor of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, and Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases in Vienna. Wagner-Jauregg died in Vienna on September 27, 1940.