Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
russischer Schriftsteller
1821 - 1881




Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

German Epilepsy Museum Kork

www.epilepsiemuseum.de
 

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky is without doubt the most well-known of all famous people who had epilepsy. Dostoyevsky's illness is a known fact to many people who otherwise have no knowledge of epilepsy, and indeed, for many people, reading Dostoyevsky's works is the first intensive contact that they have with a person with epilepsy.

More than anyone else, Dostoyevsky used his own illness and the suffering that went with it as a theme in his writing. The writer made many people in his stories and novels have epilepsy. The most well-known figure is Prince Myshkin in the novel "The Idiot". This character also reveals most about Dostoyevsky's own illness.

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