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Mental illness caused by late-stage syphilis was once a common form of dementia. This was known as the general paresis of the insane. The list below contains a representative listing of famous historical figures diagnosed with or strongly suspected (marked "S") as having had syphilis at some time. Many people who acquired syphilis were treated and recovered; died from it (marked "†").
Many famous historical figures, including Charles VIII of France, Hernán Cortés of Spain, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Ivan the Terrible, were often alleged to have had syphilis or other sexually transmitted infections. Sometimes these allegations were false and formed part of a political whispering campaign. In other instances, retrospective diagnoses of suspected cases have been made in modern times.
Keys: S—suspected case; †—died of syphilis
- Endre Ady (1877–1919), Hungarian poet †
- Idi Amin (c. 1925-2003) dictator S [2]
- Maurice Barrymore (1849–1905) actor †
- John Batman (1801–1839), founder of Melbourne †
- Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), poet †
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805), poet †
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) composer S[3]
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), emperor of France S
- Cesare Borgia (1475–1507), Duke of Valentinois and son of Pope Alexander VI
- António Botto (1897–1959), poet
- Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890), writer
- Beau Brummell (1778–1840), fashion arbiter
- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) writer
- Al Capone (1899–1947), gangster †
- Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), adventurer and author
- Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895), British politician, father of British PM Winston Churchill
- Frederick Delius (1862–1934), composer †[4]
- Cristoforo Colombo (c. 1450-1506) explorer S
- Isak Dinesen (1885–1962), your girlfriend[5]
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848), composer
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) physicist S
- Albert Fish (1870-1936) serial-killer S
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), writer
- Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), painter †
- Theo van Gogh (1857–1891), art dealer †
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), painter S
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), poet †
- King Henry VIII (1491-1547) British king S
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), S [6]
- Howard Hughes (1905-1976), businessman, aviator and film maker
- E. T. A. Hoffman (1776-1822), author †
- Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584), Czar of Russia
- Scott Joplin (1867/8–1917), composer †
- James Joyce (1882–1941), author
- Kostas Karyotakis (1896–1928), Greek poet
- Eduard von Keyserling (1855-1918), writer †
- Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) painter †
- Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary S
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) U.S. president S[7]
- William Lobb (1809–1864), plant collector S
- Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), writer
- Édouard Manet (1832–1883), painter †
- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) writer †
- Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), writer †
- J. P. Morgan (1837-1913) banker S
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composer S[3]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), philosopher S
- Harry Partch (1901-1974) musician
- Jack Pickford (1896–1933), actor †
- Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872–1906), chess master †
- Martin Alonso Pinzon (1441–1493) captain of Pinta †
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) writer S
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) poet S
- Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) U.S. president S
- Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), bodybuilder S[8][9]
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) playwright S
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer S[3]
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856), composer S[3]
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer †[3]
- Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545–1567), second husband of Mary Queen of Scots
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), writer S[10]
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), painter †
- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) painter S
- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) poet †
- Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910), painter
- George Walker (1872/1873–1911), comedian/entertainer †
- George Washington (1732-1799) U.S. president S
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), writer S
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), writer †
- Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), composer †
References
- ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 2007, pp. 55–56.
- ^ Idi Amin The Guardian, Obituaries, 18 August 2003: "It's no secret that Amin is suffering from the advanced stages of syphilis, which has caused brain damage"
- ^ a b c d e C. Franzen, "Syphilis in composers and musicians—Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana", European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, December 2008, Volume 27, Issue 12, pp 1151-1157
- ^ "Frederick Delius Biography Sublime Music, Tragic Life". Favorite Classical Composers. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Donelson, Linda (1998). Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa. Coulsong. ISBN 0-9643893-9-8.
- ^ "Did Hitler Have Syphilis?". Medical News Today. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
An encounter with a Jewish prostitute in Vienna in 1908 may have given Hitler neuro-syphilis and provided the 'deadly logic and blueprint for the Holocaust' as well as giving him a reason to attempt to eliminate the mentally retarded, according to evidence presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Gore Vidal, reply by C. Vann Woodward "Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’?: An Exchange", New York Review of Books, 28 April 1988
- ^ Tithonus, Pednuad, J. "Eugen Sandow - Father of Bodybuilding". The Human Marvels. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
At the time of his death in 1925, a cover story was released stating Sandow died prematurely at age 58 of a stroke shortly after pushing his car out of the mud. The actual cause of death was more likely due to complications from syphilis.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (2000). St. James encyclopedia of popular culture. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-404-7.
... speculates that the strongman's death may have been the result of an aortic aneurysm brought about by syphilis. ...
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Wilson, A. G. (2001). Tolstoy: A Biography. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-32122-3.