Viktor Frankl
1905 – 1997 · aged 92
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
- Born
- 26 Mar 1905 · Vienna
- Died
- 2 Sept 1997 · Vienna
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- 26 Mar 1905BornBorn in Vienna
- 1970AwardPrize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences
- 1981AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1985AwardOskar Pfister Award
- 1991AwardEhrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln
- 1994AwardMasaryk University Gold Medal
- 1995AwardHonorary citizen of Vienna
- 2 Sept 1997DiedDied in Vienna
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Major world events during their lifetime (1905 – 1997).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Viktor Emil Frankl (Austrian German: [ˈfraŋkl̩]; 26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997)
was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.
Logotherapy was promoted as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy, after those established by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler.
Frankl wrote 39 books. The best-selling autobiographical book Man's Search for Meaning is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps.
Text from the Wikipedia article Viktor Frankl, CC BY-SA 4.0
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