Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857 to 1940) was an Austrian physician who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and was the first psychiatrist to do so, for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica. Born Julius Wagner in Wels, Upper Austria, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1880 and took his doctorate in 1880. In 1889 he succeeded Richard von Krafft-Ebing at the Neuro-Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Graz, where he began research on goitre, cretinism and iodine, and in 1893 he became extraordinary professor of psychiatry and nervous diseases and director of the clinic in Vienna.