Bleuler, Eugen

1857 - Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a small town near Zürich in Switzerland, on the 30th of April.

He studied medicine in Zürich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich.

1886 - Bleuler became the director of a psychiatric clinic at Rheinau.

1898 - Returned to the Burghölzli to be appointed director, where notably he employed Carl Jung as an intern.

1911 - He credited the word 'ambivalence'.

1912 - The Oxford English Dictionary states that he also named 'autism'.

Coined word "schizophrenia"

He is the early collaborator with Sigmund Freud.

Bleuler is the teacher of Hermann Rorschach