PSYCHOLOGIST

Otto Rank

1884 - 1939

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Otto Rank (; Austrian German: [ʀaŋk]; né Rosenfeld; 22 April 1884 – 31 October 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, editor of the two leading analytic journals of the era, including Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse (“International Journal of Psychoanalysis”), managing director of Freud's publishing house, and a creative theorist and therapist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Rank has received more than 622,521 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Otto Rank is the 69th most popular psychologist (up from 74th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Austria (down from 231st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Otto Rank was a psychoanalyst who is most famous for his work on the psychology of creativity.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Otto Rank ranks 69 out of 235. Before him are Stanislav Grof, Leon Festinger, Alice Miller, Philip Zimbardo, Margaret Mahler, and Ernst Kretschmer. After him are Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, Ernst Heinrich Weber, George Armitage Miller, Karl Bühler, and Edward C. Tolman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Otto Rank ranks 37. Before him are Rudolf Bultmann, Leo Frank, Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and Panait Istrati. After him are Étienne Gilson, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Petru Groza, Antonín Zápotocký, Hugo Gernsback, and Zinaida Serebriakova. Among people deceased in 1939, Otto Rank ranks 25. Before him are Louis Wain, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Ambroise Vollard, Alexander Yegorov, Anthony Fokker, and Ghazi of Iraq. After him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Ernst Toller, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Wilhelm Groener, and S. P. L. Sørensen.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Rank ranks 241 out of 1,424. Before him are Peter L. Berger (1929), Paul Lazarsfeld (1901), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656), Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711), Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (1418), and Ferdinand Piëch (1937). After him are Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887), Michael Hainisch (1858), Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853), Karl Lueger (1844), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), and Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Otto Rank ranks 6. Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Anna Freud (1895), Melanie Klein (1882), and Bruno Bettelheim (1903). After him are Paul Watzlawick (1921), Otto Gross (1877), René Spitz (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), and Walter Mischel (1930).

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