Karl Ewald Hasse

Karl Ewald Hasse (23 June 1810 to 26 September 1902) was a German physician and professor of special pathology, born in Dresden, the son of the historian Friedrich Christian August Hasse. He studied medicine at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden and at the University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1833, continued in Paris and Vienna and gained his habilitation at Leipzig in 1836. He became associate professor of pathological anatomy at Leipzig in 1839, medical director of the cantonal hospital and professor of pathology in Zürich in 1844, professor of special pathology at Heidelberg in 1852 and at Göttingen in 1856, where he was medical director until 1878. His writings include a work on the diseases of the organs of circulation and respiration, translated into English in 1846, and a book on diseases of the nervous system published in 1855. He was instrumental in the decision of the Swiss psychiatrist and psychosurgery pioneer Gottlieb Burckhardt to enter the field of nervous diseases, which is his link to the history of psychology.