PSYCHOLOGIST

Erik Erikson

1902 - 1994

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Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a Danish-German-Jewish child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity crisis. Despite lacking a university degree, Erikson served as a professor at prominent institutions, including Harvard, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Erikson has received more than 3,153,181 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Erik Erikson is the 13th most popular psychologist (down from 12th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Germany (down from 95th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Psychologist.

Erik Erikson is most famous for his theory of psychosocial development. He believed that development occurs in eight stages and that each stage is a conflict that must be resolved in order to progress to the next stage.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Erik Erikson ranks 13 out of 235. Before him are Lev Vygotsky, Wilhelm Wundt, Jacques Lacan, John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, and William James. After him are Carl Rogers, Gustave Le Bon, Albert Bandura, John B. Watson, Kurt Lewin, and Daniel Kahneman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Erik Erikson ranks 7. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini, Karl Popper, Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Malenkov, Paul Dirac, and Leni Riefenstahl. After him are Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, Talcott Parsons, and Eugene Wigner. Among people deceased in 1994, Erik Erikson ranks 9. Before him are Karl Popper, Charles Bukowski, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Erich Honecker, Eugène Ionesco, and Elias Canetti. After him are Ayrton Senna, Linus Pauling, Giulietta Masina, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Burt Lancaster.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erik Erikson ranks 131 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Schumacher (1969), Lothair I (795), Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Heinrich Böll (1917), Michel Ney (1769), and Walter Gropius (1883). After him are Carl Orff (1895), George I of Great Britain (1660), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Baron Munchausen (1720), Max von Laue (1879), and Christian IX of Denmark (1818).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Erik Erikson ranks 3. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), and Wilhelm Wundt (1832). After him are 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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