Editing Auguste Forel (section)

==Education==
He went to school at Morges and [[Lausanne]]. In 1866 he began his studies at the University of Zurich's medical school. While at medical school he continued to collect colonies of ants in order to study their physiology, biology, anatomy, systematic and even posology, as he experimented with the effect of some biochemical agents on them.

In 1871 he went to Vienna and studied under [[Theodor Meynert]] (1833-1892), where he did his first comparative study of the [[thalamus]].{{sfn|Parent|2003|page=284}} Forel was disappointed by Meynert.{{sfn|Parent|2003|page=285}}

In Zurich he was inspired by the work of [[Bernhard von Gudden]] (1824-1886). In 1873 he moved to Germany to assist Gudden at his Munich Kreis-Irrenanstalt. He improved upon various techniques in neuro-anatomy including modifications to Gudden's microtome design.