PSYCHOLOGIST

Otto Gross

1877 - 1920

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Otto Hans Adolf Gross (17 March 1877 – 13 February 1920) was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. His father Hans Gross was a judge turned pioneering criminologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Gross has received more than 335,526 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Otto Gross is the 99th most popular psychologist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from Austria (up from 350th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Otto Gross was a psychoanalyst who believed that sexual desire was the root of all human behavior. He saw sexual desire as a natural, healthy, and necessary part of life.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Otto Gross ranks 99 out of 235. Before him are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Vladimir Bekhterev, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Marie-Louise von Franz, Benjamin Bloom, and Émile Coué. After him are Clark L. Hull, René Spitz, Charles Spearman, Harry Stack Sullivan, Michael Balint, and Auguste Forel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Otto Gross ranks 42. Before him are Princess Auguste of Bavaria, Emil Abderhalden, Endre Ady, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ulrich Salchow, and Vasil Kolarov. After him are Sadao Araki, Raymond Roussel, Edmund Landau, Petar Kočić, Charles Rolls, and Pavel Bermondt-Avalov. Among people deceased in 1920, Otto Gross ranks 31. Before him are Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Essad Pasha Toptani, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Eleanor H. Porter, Prince Joachim of Prussia, and Abraham Kuyper. After him are Lothar von Trotha, Fatali Khan Khoyski, Mikhail Eisenstein, William Chester Minor, Norman Lockyer, and Vladimir Purishkevich.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Gross ranks 346 out of 1,424. Before him are Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (1204), Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (1915), Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (1872), Hans Krankl (1953), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), and Toni Sailer (1935). After him are Helene Weigel (1900), Joe Zawinul (1932), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), René Spitz (1887), Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), and Vicki Baum (1888).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Otto Gross ranks 8. Before him are Viktor Frankl (1905), Anna Freud (1895), Melanie Klein (1882), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), and Paul Watzlawick (1921). After him are René Spitz (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Walter Mischel (1930), Fritz Heider (1896), and Emma Eckstein (1865).

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