1884 - 1939
Otto Rank (; 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, 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 581,016 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Otto Rank is the 74th most popular psychologist (down from 69th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Austria (down from 222nd 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, Otto Rank ranks 74 out of 183. Before him are Edward B. Titchener, Stanislav Grof, G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Kurt Koffka, and Mary Ainsworth. After him are Ernst Heinrich Weber, Karl Abraham, Alice Miller, Harry Harlow, William Stern, and Paul Watzlawick.
1867 - 1927
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 68
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 69
1846 - 1924
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 70
1896 - 1981
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 71
1886 - 1941
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 72
1913 - 1999
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 73
1884 - 1939
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 74
1795 - 1878
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 75
1877 - 1925
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 76
1923 - 2010
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 77
1905 - 1981
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 78
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 79
1921 - 2007
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 80
Among people born in 1884, Otto Rank ranks 35. Before him are Emil Jannings, Casimir Funk, Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and Panait Istrati. After him are Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Gilson, Petru Groza, Robert J. Flaherty, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Among people deceased in 1939, Otto Rank ranks 24. Before him are Antonio Machado, Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Louis Wain, and Douglas Fairbanks. After him are Anthony Fokker, Ghazi of Iraq, Ernst Toller, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Wilhelm Groener, and Stanislav Kosior.
1884 - 1950
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 29
1884 - 1967
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 30
1884 - 1950
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 31
1884 - 1945
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 32
1884 - 1965
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 33
1884 - 1935
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 34
1884 - 1939
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 35
1884 - 1955
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 36
1884 - 1954
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 37
1884 - 1978
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 38
1884 - 1958
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 39
1884 - 1951
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 40
1884 - 1976
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 41
1875 - 1939
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 18
1883 - 1939
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 19
1866 - 1939
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 20
1852 - 1939
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 21
1860 - 1939
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 22
1883 - 1939
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 23
1884 - 1939
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 24
1890 - 1939
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 25
1912 - 1939
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 26
1893 - 1939
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 27
1858 - 1939
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 28
1867 - 1939
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 29
1889 - 1939
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 30
Among people born in Austria, Otto Rank ranks 231 out of 1,237. Before him are Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria (1692), Otto Bauer (1881), Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (1586), Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893). After him are Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Falco (1957), Klaus Ebner (1964), Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), and Bruno Kreisky (1911).
1692 - 1699
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 225
1881 - 1938
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 226
1586 - 1632
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 227
1887 - 1953
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 228
1766 - 1803
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 229
1893 - 1970
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 230
1884 - 1939
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 231
1960 - 1994
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 232
1957 - 1998
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 233
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 234
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 235
1892 - 1930
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 236
1911 - 1990
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 237
Among psychologists born in Austria, Otto Rank ranks 6. Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Melanie Klein (1882), Anna Freud (1895), and Bruno Bettelheim (1903). After him are Paul Watzlawick (1921), René Spitz (1887), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), Walter Mischel (1930), and Fritz Heider (1896).
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 1
1905 - 1997
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 2
1882 - 1960
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 3
1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 4
1903 - 1990
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 5
1884 - 1939
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 6
1921 - 2007
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 7
1887 - 1974
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 8
1877 - 1920
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 9
1913 - 1981
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 10
1930 - 2018
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 11
1896 - 1988
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 12