Daniel Paul Schreber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Paul Schreber

German judge, writer, and notable patient of Freud

Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1842

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Apr-1911

Profession: judge, writer, autobiographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Daniel Paul Schreber (German: ['??e?b?]; 25 July 1842 – 14 April 1911) was a German judge who suffered from three distinct mental illnesses.
The first of these was what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox (later known as paranoid schizophrenia or schizophrenia, paranoid type).
He described his second mental illness (1893–1902), making also a brief reference to the first disorder (1884–1885) in his book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (original German title Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken).
The Memoirs became an influential book in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis thanks to its interpretation by Sigmund Freud. There is no personal account of his third disorder (1907–1911), but some details about it can be found in the Hospital Chart (in the Appendix to Lothane's book).
During his second illness he was treated by Prof.
Paul Flechsig (Leipzig University Clinic), Dr.
Pierson (Lindenhof), and Dr.
Guido Weber (Royal Public Asylum, Sonnenstein).