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<jats:p>From what is known today, Georg Sachs is the first documented synesthete in history ( Jewanski, Day, & Ward, 2009 ). His medical dissertation on albinism including a self-description of his own synesthesia was published in 1812. Yet, when did research on synesthesia start? Who was the first researcher? Why and how did he start? What questions did he consider relevant to ask? What answers could he give without established tests? What articles or books did he write? How influential was his work for the next generation of scientists? Which of his theories are still valid in 2012? Édouard Cornaz (1825 – 1911), the first researcher on synesthesia is almost totally forgotten today. This year, 200 years after Sachs, is the best date to remember and dignify the man who is the precursor of all researchers of this phenomenon.</jats:p>