Paul Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss professor of medicine, holder of the chair of psychiatry at the University of Zurich and director of the university psychiatric clinic of Burghölzli in Zurich (1898-1927), was the son of Johann Rudolf Bleuler and Pauline Bleuler-Bleuler. Born April 30, 1857, near Zurich, he died July 15, 1939. Bleuler came from a family of well-to-do farmers. He went to several schools, then studied medicine in Zurich, graduating in 1881. From 1881 to 1884 he was an assistant physician at the university psychiatric clinic of Waldau-Bern. From 1884-1885 he went to Paris to study with Charcot and then to London and Munich, where he studied with Gudden. From 1885 to 1886 Bleuler worked as an assistant physician to August Forel at Burghölzli. From 1886 to 1898 he was director of the psychiatric clinic of Rheinau-Zürich, finally assuming the position formerly held by Forel in Burghölzli in 1898, where he remained until...