1885 - 1952
Karen Horney (; née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practised in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Horney has received more than 980,972 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Karen Horney is the 30th most popular psychologist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Germany (up from 356th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Psychologist.
Karen Horney is most famous for her work with sex offenders. She wrote the book, "The Rapist's Wife: What She Knew and How She Lives with the Consequences," which tells the story of her marriage to a convicted rapist.
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Among psychologists, Karen Horney ranks 30 out of 183. Before her are Wilhelm Reich, Irvin D. Yalom, Alfred Binet, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Gustav Fechner. After her are Jerome Bruner, Paul Ekman, Howard Gardner, Milton H. Erickson, Gordon Allport, and Hans Eysenck.
1897 - 1957
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 24
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 25
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 26
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 27
1850 - 1909
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 28
1801 - 1887
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 29
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 31
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 32
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 33
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 34
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 35
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 36
Among people born in 1885, Karen Horney ranks 13. Before her are Julius Streicher, François Mauriac, Ezra Pound, Faisal I of Iraq, George S. Patton, and Robert Delaunay. After her are Princess Alice of Battenberg, Chester W. Nimitz, André Maurois, Ernst Busch, Umberto Nobile, and D. H. Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1952, Karen Horney ranks 10. Before her are Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, Chaim Weizmann, and Paul Éluard. After her are Benedetto Croce, Walter Schellenberg, Elena of Montenegro, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Sven Hedin, and Khorloogiin Choibalsan.
1885 - 1946
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 7
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 8
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1885 - 1933
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 10
1885 - 1945
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 11
1885 - 1941
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 12
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 13
1885 - 1969
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 14
1885 - 1966
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 15
1885 - 1967
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 16
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 17
1885 - 1978
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 18
1885 - 1930
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 19
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 4
1919 - 1952
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 5
1872 - 1952
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 6
1895 - 1952
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 7
1874 - 1952
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 8
1895 - 1952
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 9
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 10
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 11
1910 - 1952
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 12
1871 - 1952
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 13
1860 - 1952
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 14
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 15
1895 - 1952
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 16
Among people born in Germany, Karen Horney ranks 318 out of 6,142. Before her are Konrad Zuse (1910), Pina Bausch (1940), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Valentinian II (371), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744). After her are Robert Bunsen (1811), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Simone Signoret (1921), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Baldur von Schirach (1907), and Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779).
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 312
1940 - 2009
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 313
1945 - 1982
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 314
371 - 392
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 315
1921 - 1943
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 316
1744 - 1812
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 317
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 318
1811 - 1899
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 319
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 320
1921 - 1985
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 321
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 322
1907 - 1974
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 323
1779 - 1861
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 324
Among psychologists born in Germany, Karen Horney ranks 5. Before her are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erich Fromm (1900), Erik Erikson (1902), and Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850). After her are Hans Eysenck (1916), Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Kurt Koffka (1886), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Abraham (1877), and William Stern (1871).
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 1
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 2
1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 3
1850 - 1909
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 4
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 5
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 6
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 7
1888 - 1964
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 8
1886 - 1941
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 9
1795 - 1878
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 10
1877 - 1925
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 11
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 12