PSYCHOLOGIST

René Spitz

1887 - 1974

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René Árpád Spitz (January 29, 1887 in Vienna – September 14, 1974 in Denver) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst. He is best known for his analysis of hospitalized infants in which he found links between marasmus and death with unmothered infants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Spitz has received more than 157,943 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). René Spitz is the 101st most popular psychologist (down from 97th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Austria (down from 344th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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  • 16

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, René Spitz ranks 101 out of 235. Before him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Marie-Louise von Franz, Benjamin Bloom, Émile Coué, Otto Gross, and Clark L. Hull. After him are Charles Spearman, Harry Stack Sullivan, Michael Balint, Auguste Forel, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and R. D. Laing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, René Spitz ranks 71. Before him are Sivananda Saraswati, Marcus Garvey, Conrad Hilton, Savielly Tartakower, Georg Heym, and Hermine Reuss of Greiz. After him are Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Tetsu Katayama, Vasily Chapayev, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Avery Brundage, and Leonard Bloomfield. Among people deceased in 1974, René Spitz ranks 46. Before him are Walter Brennan, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Creighton Abrams, Frank Martin, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Salvador Puig Antich. After him are Gino Cervi, Agnes Moorehead, Marcel Achard, Pietro Germi, André Jolivet, and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr..

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, René Spitz ranks 350 out of 1,424. Before him are Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Toni Sailer (1935), Otto Gross (1877), Helene Weigel (1900), Joe Zawinul (1932), and Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858). After him are Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), Vicki Baum (1888), Theodor Körner (1873), Friedrich Gulda (1930), Archduchess Mathilda of Austria (1849), and Johann Joseph Fux (1660).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, René Spitz ranks 9. Before him are Anna Freud (1895), Melanie Klein (1882), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), and Otto Gross (1877). After him are Heinz Kohut (1913), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Walter Mischel (1930), Fritz Heider (1896), Emma Eckstein (1865), and Karl H. Pribram (1919).

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