PSYCHOLOGIST

Erich Fromm

1900 - 1980

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Erich Seligmann Fromm (; German: [fʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Fromm has received more than 2,235,611 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Erich Fromm is the 6th most popular psychologist (up from 8th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Germany and the most popular German Psychologist.

Erich Fromm is most famous for his book "The Art of Loving," which was published in 1956. The book explores the nature of love, and argues that love is not a feeling but rather an act of will.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Erich Fromm ranks 6 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Alfred Adler, and Abraham Maslow. After him are Lev Vygotsky, Wilhelm Wundt, Jacques Lacan, John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, and William James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Erich Fromm ranks 4. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Heinrich Himmler, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. After him are Martin Bormann, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, and Adolf Dassler. Among people deceased in 1980, Erich Fromm ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Dönitz, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon, Jean Piaget, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After him are Roland Barthes, Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, Steve McQueen, Jesse Owens, and Colonel Sanders.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Fromm ranks 66 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Eva Braun (1912), Gerd Müller (1945), Ambrose (340), Jacques Offenbach (1819), and Konrad Adenauer (1876). After him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Albertus Magnus (1206), Clara Schumann (1819), and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Erich Fromm ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), Karen Horney (1885), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Bühler (1879).

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