Dr Karl Wernicke (1848 - 1904) Wernicke was born in Tarnovitz, Poland but his family moved to Germany where he received his education. Interested in psychiatry, he studied anatomy initially and neuropathology later. He published a small volume on aphasia which vaulted him into international fame. In it, was a precise pathoanatomic analysis paralleling the clinical picture. He is best known for his work on sensory aphasia and polio mylitis hemmoragia superior. Both of these descriptions bear his name. Further, his books on the disorders of the internal capsule and his textbooks on the diseases of the nervous system perpetuate him.