Hippolyte bernheim biography for kids

French physician and neurologist (1840–1919)

Hippolyte Bernheim (17 April 1840, in Mulhouse – 2 February 1919, in Paris) was a French physician and neurologist.

He is chiefly known for his theory of suggestibility in relation to hypnotism.^[1]

Life

Born into a Jewish family,^[2] Bernheim received his education in his native town and at the University of Strasbourg, where he was graduated as doctor of medicine in 1867.

The same year he became a lecturer at the university and established himself as a physician in the city.

Hippolyte bernheim biography for kids

When, in 1871, after the Franco-Prussian war, Strasbourg passed to Germany, Bernheim moved to Nancy (where he met and later collaborated with Dr. Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault), in the university of which town he became clinical professor.

The Nancy School

When the medical faculty took up hypnotism, about 1880, Bernheim was very enthusiastic, and soon became one of the leaders of the investigation. He became a wel