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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.