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PSYCHOLOGIST

Karl Abraham

1877 - 1925

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Karl Abraham (German: [ˈaːbʁaham]; 3 May 1877 – 25 December 1925) was an influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Abraham has received more than 139,723 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Karl Abraham is the 76th most popular psychologist (up from 77th in 2019), the 954th most popular biography from Germany (down from 950th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Psychologist.

Karl Abraham was a psychoanalyst and is most famous for being the first to explore the connection between homosexuality and the Oedipus complex.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl Abraham ranks 76 out of 183Before him are G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Kurt Koffka, Mary Ainsworth, Otto Rank, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. After him are Alice Miller, Harry Harlow, William Stern, Paul Watzlawick, David McClelland, and Walter Bradford Cannon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Karl Abraham ranks 25Before him are Said Nursî, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Maurice Halbwachs, Alfred Cortot, Princess Auguste of Bavaria, and André Maginot. After him are Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Ernst von Dohnányi, Plutarco Elías Calles, Aga Khan III, Gabriele Münter, and Enrico De Nicola. Among people deceased in 1925, Karl Abraham ranks 35Before him are Vajiravudh, Fritz Haarmann, Léon Bourgeois, Aleksey Kuropatkin, H. Rider Haggard, and Eugen Sandow. After him are Pierre Louÿs, Lovis Corinth, Max Linder, Hjalmar Branting, Moritz Moszkowski, and Boris Savinkov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Abraham ranks 954 out of 6,142Before him are Emil Maurice (1897), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Johannes Althusius (1563), Robert Michels (1876), Herbert Gille (1897), and Sophie of Württemberg (1818). After him are Erich Auerbach (1892), Max Wolf (1863), Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Julius Richard Petri (1852), and Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Abraham ranks 11Before him are Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Kurt Koffka (1886), and Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795). After him are William Stern (1871), Karl Bühler (1879), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Adolf Bastian (1826), and Ulric Neisser (1928).