Short answers, pulled from the story.
Burghölzli is the Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, a psychiatric research hospital associated with the University of Zürich. It is located on a wooded hill in the district of Riesbach in southeastern Zürich and has operated as a major center for psychiatric treatment and research since 1870.
Wilhelm Griesinger is considered the founder of the Burghölzli. He was instrumental in planning the new asylum but died before the building was established in 1870.
A fire broke out at the Burghölzli clinic on the 6th of March 1971. Twenty-eight elderly male patients died from asphyxiation. Bars on the windows prevented rescuers from saving them.
Yes. Carl Gustav Jung worked at Burghölzli as assistant to director Eugen Bleuler during the period from 1898 to 1927, known as the Bleuler era. The hospital became a center of psychoanalytic thought during this time.
Eduard Einstein, the son of Albert Einstein, was a patient at Burghölzli. Lucia Joyce, daughter of writer James Joyce, was also a patient at the hospital.
Auguste-Henri Forel was the fourth director of Burghölzli and led the hospital for nearly twenty years. He conducted hypnosis experiments on patients and staff and performed sterilization procedures, which he later admitted were justified by a 'pretense' of therapeutic purpose while their true aim was social.