Julius Wagner-Jauregg's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

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Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austrian German: [ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈvaːɡnɐ ˈjaʊrɛk]; 7 March 1857 – 27 September 1940) was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. The birth-card coordinate for March 7 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1927 Physiology or Medicine prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1927 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Julius Wagner-Jauregg's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Julius Wagner-Jauregg. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Julius Wagner-Jauregg in the public record

His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica". Julius Wagner-Jauregg was born Julius Wagner on 7 March 1857 in Wels, Upper Austria, the son of Adolph Johann Wagner and Ludovika Jauernigg Ranzoni. His family name was changed to "Wagner von Jauregg" when his father was given the title of "Ritter von Jauregg" (a hereditary title of nobility) in 1883 by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hence he retained the name Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg until 1918 when the empire was dissolved, and nobility was abolished. The family name was then contracted to "Wagner-Jauregg". He attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna before going on to study Medicine at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1880, where he also studied with Salomon Stricker in the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology. He obtained his doctorate in 1880 with the thesis "L'origine et la fonction du cœur accéléré." He left the institute in 1882. After leaving the clinic, he conducted laboratory experiments with animals, which was practiced very little at this time.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Julius Wagner-Jauregg (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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The main work pursued by Wagner-Jauregg throughout his life was related to the treatment of mental disease by inducing a fever, an approach known as pyrotherapy.

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Also on the record

1. From 1883 to 1887 he worked with Maximilian Leidesdorf in the Psychiatric Clinic, although his original training was not in the pathology of the nervous system.
2. In 1889 he succeeded the famous Richard von Krafft-Ebing at the Neuro-Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Graz, and started his research on Goitre, cretinism and iodine.
3. In 1893 he became Extraordinary Professor of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, and Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases in Vienna, as successor to Theodor Meynert.
4. A student and assistant of Wagner-Jauregg during this time was Constantin von Economo.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Fert — 2007 Physics
• Alfred Kastler — 1966 Physics
• Benjamin List — 2021 Chemistry
• David Baltimore — 1975 Physiology or Medicine
• George Paget Thomson — 1937 Physics
• Ivar Giaever — 1973 Physics
• J. M. Coetzee — 2003 Literature
• Jacques Monod — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Jeffrey C. Hall — 2017 Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph E. Stiglitz — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Kailash Satyarthi — 2014 Peace
• Kip S. Thorne — 2017 Physics
• 6 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Julius Wagner-Jauregg's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. March 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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