Lajos Gulácsy

The news of the outbreak of the First World War reached him in Venice, and the tension of the state of war so strained his already oversensitive nervous system that he had to be taken to a nearby mental hospital. The diagnosis: schizophrenia. He was brought home with great difficulty, but from then on he became a regular patient of the psychiatric clinic. In 1919 he was kept in for good, and he spent the last 13 years of his life in catatonic solitude.

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