William Thierry Preyer
German physiologist
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- 1841–1897
Updated September 2026
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About William Thierry Preyer
William Thierry Preyer or Wilhelm Preyer was an English-born biochemist, physiologist and psychologist who worked in Germany. He worked as a professor of physiology at the University of Jena and then at Berlin. Studying his own son among other children he examined developmental psychology, language acquisition and language pathology.
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