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Sigmund Freud
An outline biography
Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on May 6th 1856 in Freiberg (now Príbor, Czech Republic) His mother Amalia, was actually the third wife of Jacob Freud and some twenty years younger than her husband.
Meaning of dreams sigmund freud biography
Sigismund was the first child of their marriage, seven more children were to follow. Jacob's earlier marriages had produced two sons who were more a less of an age with Amalia. The household was Jewish and Jacob earnt a fairly modest living as a merchant in wool.
In 1859 the family moved initially to Leipzig and then, a few months thereafter, settled permanently in Vienna.
Although Sigismund's early aspiration had been for a career in law, he later decided to pursue a course in Medicine and entered Vienna University in 1873.
It seems that he became deeply involved, from 1876, in researches into the central nervous system to the extent that he neglected to closely pursue the range of courses that would have allowed him to promptly qua