Pioneers in their fields, but now mostly known for how wrong they were
- Sigmund Freud - Father of Psychoanalysis, shifted the culture into a new way of thinking about the mind. Most of his theories don't hold up to modern scientific standards.
- Heinrich Schliemann, Amateur Archaeologist , Discovered Homer's City of Troy and then practically destroyed it by blowing it up with dynamite.
u/Arristocrat — 6 days ago