PSYCHOLOGIST

Sándor Ferenczi

1873 - 1933

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Sándor Ferenczi (7 July 1873 – 22 May 1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Ferenczi has received more than 309,417 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Sándor Ferenczi is the 46th most popular psychologist (up from 57th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 72nd in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Psychologist.

Sándor Ferenczi was a psychoanalyst and one of the earliest members of the psychoanalytic movement. He is most famous for his work in child psychoanalysis and for his book "Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality."

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Sándor Ferenczi ranks 46 out of 235Before him are John Bowlby, Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, Elton Mayo, Alfred Kinsey, and Max Wertheimer. After him are Raymond Cattell, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Sabina Spielrein, Bruno Bettelheim, Albert Ellis, and Kurt Koffka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Sándor Ferenczi ranks 21Before him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Julius Martov, G. E. Moore, Max Reger, and Spyridon Louis. After him are Pavlo Skoropadskyi, William McMaster Murdoch, Francisco I. Madero, Kyösti Kallio, Max Reinhardt, and Alice Guy-Blaché. Among people deceased in 1933, Sándor Ferenczi ranks 10Before him are Adolf Loos, Faisal I of Iraq, Constantine P. Cavafy, 13th Dalai Lama, John Galsworthy, and Paul Ehrenfest. After him are Mohammed Nadir Shah, Nikolai Yudenich, Annie Besant, Wilhelm Cuno, Stefan George, and Princess Thyra of Denmark.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Sándor Ferenczi ranks 76 out of 1,077Before him are Béla II of Hungary (1108), Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893), Katalin Karikó (1955), Solomon, King of Hungary (1053), Marie Henriette of Austria (1836), and Nándor Hidegkuti (1922). After him are Kinga of Poland (1224), Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917), Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (940), Avram Hershko (1937), Irene of Hungary (1088), and Marcel Breuer (1902).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Hungary

Among psychologists born in Hungary, Sándor Ferenczi ranks 1After him are Margaret Mahler (1897), Michael Balint (1896), and Franz Alexander (1891).