Carl georg lange biography

Danish physician

Carl Georg Lange (4 December 1834 – 29 May 1900) was a Danishphysician who made contributions to the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and psychology.

Born to a wealthy family in Vordingborg, Denmark, Lange attended medical school at the University of Copenhagen and graduated in 1859 with a reputation for brilliance.^[1] After publishing on the neurological pathologies of aphasia, bulbar palsy, tabes dorsalis, and pathologies of the spinal cord, he achieved world fame with his 1885 work "On Emotions: A Psycho-Physiological Study".^[1] In it, he posited that all emotions are developed from, and can be reduced to, physiological reactions to stimuli.

Seemingly independently, the American William James had published a similar work the year before, but unlike James, Lange specifically stated that vasomotor changes are emotions. The theory became known as the James–Lange theory of emotion.

In 1886 Lange published "