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Bertha Pappenheim

1859 - 1936

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Bertha Pappenheim (27 February 1859 – 28 May 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented patients because of Sigmund Freud's writing on Breuer's case. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bertha Pappenheim is the 153rd most popular social activist (down from 146th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Austria (up from 294th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Social Activist.

Bertha Pappenheim was most famous for being the first person to use the term "hysteria" to describe a mental illness. She was also one of the first women to be diagnosed with hysteria.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bertha Pappenheim ranks 153 out of 840. Before her are Sergey Nechayev, George Stinney, Vlado Chernozemski, Yiannis Ritsos, Beppe Grillo, and Ilya Ulyanov. After her are Frances Willard, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Judas of Galilee, Soh Jaipil, Musa al-Sadr, and Abimael Guzmán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Bertha Pappenheim ranks 27. Before her are Hugo Junkers, Alexander Samsonov, Anna Ancher, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Venustiano Carranza, and Francisco Ferrer. After her are Peter Altenberg, Diana Abgar, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., Pavel Milyukov, Thibaw Min, and Jānis Čakste. Among people deceased in 1936, Bertha Pappenheim ranks 49. Before her are Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Julius Schreck, Wilhelm Gustloff, Max Schreck, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, and José Sanjurjo. After her are Robert Michels, Duan Qirui, Anna Boch, Marcel Grossmann, Kikunae Ikeda, and Gyula Gömbös.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Bertha Pappenheim ranks 290 out of 1,424. Before her are Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1853), Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1534), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), and Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611). After her are Friedrich Adler (1879), William, Duke of Austria (1370), Max Steiner (1888), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1762), and Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Austria

Among social activists born in Austria, Bertha Pappenheim ranks 2. Before her are Alfred Hermann Fried (1864). After her are Diana Budisavljević (1891), Maria Altmann (1916), Marianne Hainisch (1839), and Barbara Gittings (1932).

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