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PSYCHOLOGIST

Ludwig Binswanger

1881 - 1966

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Ludwig Binswanger (; German: [ˈbɪnsvaŋɐ]; 13 April 1881 – 5 February 1966) was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology. His parents were Robert Johann Binswanger (1850–1910) and Bertha Hasenclever (1847–1896). Robert's German-Jewish father Ludwig "Elieser" Binswanger (1820–1880) was founder, in 1857, of the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Binswanger has received more than 188,278 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Binswanger is the 84th most popular psychologist (down from 80th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 101st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Psychologist.

Ludwig Binswanger was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who is most famous for his work on existential psychotherapy.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 84 out of 183. Before him are Harry Harlow, William Stern, Paul Watzlawick, David McClelland, Walter Bradford Cannon, and Muzafer Sherif. After him are Karl Bühler, Vladimir Bekhterev, Benjamin Bloom, Donald O. Hebb, Antonio Damasio, and George Armitage Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 47. Before him are Ivan Ribar, Otto Bauer, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, William Boeing, Emil Ludwig, and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax. After him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sveinn Björnsson, Cecil B. DeMille, Victor Klemperer, Giovanni Papini, and P. G. Wodehouse. Among people deceased in 1966, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 41. Before him are Gino Severini, Charlotte Cooper, D. T. Suzuki, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Hannes Kolehmainen, and Cléo de Mérode. After him are Frank Lentini, Erwin Piscator, Lao She, Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 104 out of 876. Before him are Jost Bürgi (1552), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Hannes Meyer (1889), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), and Germain Henri Hess (1802). After him are Gaspard Bauhin (1560), César Ritz (1850), Albert Anker (1831), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Charles Bonnet (1720), and Anna Göldi (1734).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 4. Before him are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), and Hermann Rorschach (1884). After him are Édouard Claparède (1873), Auguste Forel (1848), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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