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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 148,836 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. René Spitz is the 97th most popular psychologist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Austria (down from 300th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.14

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, René Spitz ranks 97 out of 183. Before him are Rollo May, Aleksei N. Leontiev, James McKeen Cattell, Harry Stack Sullivan, Charles Spearman, and John Money. After him are Benjamin Spock, Michael Balint, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Otto Gross, and Hugo Münsterberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, René Spitz ranks 72. Before him are Blaise Cendrars, Savielly Tartakower, Raoul Walsh, Jack Phillips, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, and Hugo Steinhaus. After him are Marcus Garvey, Josef Čapek, Giovanni Gronchi, Vasily Chapayev, Leonard Bloomfield, and George, Crown Prince of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1974, René Spitz ranks 43. Before him are Franz Jonas, Frank Martin, Walter Brennan, Agnes Moorehead, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and James J. Braddock. After him are Creighton Abrams, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Gino Cervi, Vannevar Bush, Salvador Puig Antich, and André Jolivet.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, René Spitz ranks 344 out of 1,237. Before him are Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680), Robert Adler (1913), Constanze Manziarly (1920), Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania (1574), and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909). After him are Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870), Erich Kleiber (1890), Eva Schloss (1929), and Otto Gross (1877).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, René Spitz ranks 8. Before him are Viktor Frankl (1905), Melanie Klein (1882), Anna Freud (1895), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), and Paul Watzlawick (1921). After him are Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), Walter Mischel (1930), Fritz Heider (1896), Emma Eckstein (1865), and Karl H. Pribram (1919).

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