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Essay Archive - Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father
was a small time merchant, and Freud's mother was his second wife. Freud
had two half-brothers some 20 years older than himself. His family moved to
Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the
city, he lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938. Freud's
family background was Jewish, though his father was a freethinker and Freud
himself an avowed atheist.
Freud was a good student, and very ambitious. Medicine and law were the
professions then open to Jewish men, and in 1873 he entered th....
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