# Karl Jaspers

> A psychiatrist who redrew the map of delusion, then walked away from the clinic to ask what it means to exist — and spent the rest of his career refusing the label everyone tried to pin on him.

*German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1883-02-23
- **Died:** 1969-02-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Karl Theodor Jaspers was born on 23 February 1883 and trained as a psychiatrist, publishing General Psychopathology in 1913. That work reshaped diagnostic thinking by distinguishing between "primary" and "secondary" delusions, a framework that echoed through psychiatry for decades. But he didn't stay. He turned to philosophy and set out to build a system of his own, one that grappled with human existence head-on. Germany's intellectuals read him as a pillar of existentialism; he rejected the term. He died on 26 February 1969, three days past his eighty-sixth birthday, having crossed borders in citizenship and discipline but never settled into the categories others prepared for him.

## Fame
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