Psychologist

Otto Gross

Austrian psychoanalyst

1877 - 1920

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His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Gross is the 109th most popular psychologist (down from 99th in 2024), the 377th most popular biography from Austria (down from 346th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Otto Gross was a psychoanalyst who believed that sexual desire was the root of all human behavior. He saw sexual desire as a natural, healthy, and necessary part of life.

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Despite a life of just 42 years, Otto Gross ranks #109 among all Psychologists in history.

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Otto Gross shares a March 17 birthday with Harun al-Rashid, Gottlieb Daimler, and Abdul Qadir Gilani.

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Among Psychologists

Among psychologists, Otto Gross ranks 109 out of 235. Before him are Charles Spearman, Donald O. Hebb, Adolf Bastian, Muzafer Sherif, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, and Frans de Waal. After him are Michael Balint, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Robert Sternberg, Édouard Claparède, Havelock Ellis, and Marie-Louise von Franz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Otto Gross ranks 50. Before him are George Hackenschmidt, Ulrich Salchow, Endre Ady, Chaim Rumkowski, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Edmund Landau. After him are Sadao Araki, Wilhelm Adam, Charles Rolls, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Raymond Roussel. Among people deceased in 1920, Otto Gross ranks 32. Before him are Dmitri Ivanovsky, Nectarios of Aegina, Max Klinger, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Abraham Kuyper, and Prince Joachim of Prussia. After him are Mikhail Eisenstein, S. Ansky, Fatali Khan Khoyski, Norman Lockyer, Lothar von Trotha, and Odoardo Beccari.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Gross ranks 377 out of 1,424. Before him are Wolfgang Schüssel (1945), Hermann Bahr (1863), Constanze Manziarly (1920), Helmuth Koinigg (1948), Franz Sacher (1816), and Alois Hudal (1885). After him are Helene Weigel (1900), Franz Jägerstätter (1907), Johannes Schober (1874), Vicki Baum (1888), Willi Boskovsky (1909), and Otto Barić (1933).

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Among Psychologists In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Otto Gross ranks 8. Before him are Viktor Frankl (1905), Anna Freud (1895), Melanie Klein (1882), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), and Paul Watzlawick (1921). After him are Heinz Kohut (1913), René Spitz (1887), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Walter Mischel (1930), Emma Eckstein (1865), and Fritz Heider (1896).

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