Editing Fredric Wertham (section)

==Early life==
Wertham was born Friedrich Ignatz [[Wertheimer]] on March 20, 1895, in [[Nuremberg]]<ref>birth certificate at the archive of the city of Nuremberg, Stadtarchiv Nürnberg C 27/IV Standesamt, Geburtenregister Nr. 521, Eintrag Nr. 1302</ref> to the middle-class [[Jewish]] family of Sigmund and Mathilde Wertheimer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wertham, Fredric (1895–1981)|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wertham-fredric-1895-1981|access-date=2021-11-21|website=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> [[Ella Winter]] (originally Wertheimer) was a relative. He did not change his name legally to Fredric Wertham until 1927. He studied at [[King's College London]], at the Universities of [[University of Munich|Munich]] and [[University of Erlangen|Erlangen]], and graduated with an M.D. degree from the [[University of Würzburg]] in 1921. He was very much influenced by Dr. [[Emil Kraepelin]], a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Munich, and worked briefly at the Kraepelin Clinic in Munich in 1922. Kraepelin emphasized the effects of environment and social background on psychological development. Around this time Wertham corresponded and visited with [[Sigmund Freud]], who influenced him in his choice of [[psychiatry]] as his specialty.