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 148,523 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Karl Abraham is the 62nd most popular psychologist (up from 76th in 2019), the 854th most popular biography from Germany (up from 954th in 2019) and the 9th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl Abraham ranks 62 out of 235. Before him are Fritz Perls, Stanley Milgram, Pierre Janet, Solomon Asch, Roger Wolcott Sperry, and Geert Hofstede. After him are Stanislav Grof, Leon Festinger, Alice Miller, Philip Zimbardo, Margaret Mahler, and Ernst Kretschmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Karl Abraham ranks 24. Before him are Maurice Halbwachs, Alfred Cortot, Edgar Cayce, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Enrico De Nicola, and Oswald Avery. After him are Mykola Leontovych, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Alfred Kubin, André Maginot, Plutarco Elías Calles, and Ernst von Dohnányi. Among people deceased in 1925, Karl Abraham ranks 29. Before him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Félix Vallotton, Hjalmar Branting, Eugen Sandow, and Aleksey Kuropatkin. After him are Oliver Heaviside, Fritz Haarmann, Percy Fawcett, John Singer Sargent, H. Rider Haggard, and Pierre Louÿs.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Abraham ranks 854 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Baer (1911), Georg Bednorz (1950), Walter Baade (1893), Joseph Berchtold (1897), Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920), and Martin Schulz (1955). After him are Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (940), Stefan George (1868), Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (1528), Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709), Nastassja Kinski (1961), and Achim von Arnim (1781).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Abraham ranks 9. Before him are Erik Erikson (1902), Karen Horney (1885), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Hans Eysenck (1916), Kurt Koffka (1886), and Fritz Perls (1893). After him are Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Bühler (1879), William Stern (1871), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), and Marie-Louise von Franz (1915).

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