Wernicke, Carl
Prof. Dr. med.

1848-1904

German psychiatrist and neurologist in Breslau and Halle/Saale. Discovered and described the cerebral area for receptive language/speech phenomena in the gyrus superior of the temporal lobe („Wernicke aphasia“), alexia, agraphia. „Der aphatische Symptomenkomplex“, Breslau 1874