“…Because of this new direction, he returned to Franconia, where the first Bavarian district insane asylum had been opened in 1846 in Erlangen, Central Franconia, just under 20 km from Nuremberg (Braun and Kornhuber, 2013a, 2013b). There, Specht was trained by Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen (1814–88, see UAE: II, 1, 42; Bumm, 1889) and Anton Bumm (1849–1903, see UAE: II, 1, 28) (on Hagen and Bumm, see Braun and Kornhuber, 2013a). ‘One may remember on this occasion the tremendous importance which psychiatry then had in Erlangen, earlier than elsewhere’ (Kihn, 1930: 630).…”