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Erich Fromm

1900 - 1980

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Erich Seligmann Fromm (; German: [fʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Fromm is the 4th most popular psychologist (up from 6th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 66th in 2019) and the most popular German Psychologist.

Erich Fromm is most famous for his book "The Art of Loving," which was published in 1956. The book explores the nature of love, and argues that love is not a feeling but rather an act of will.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Erich Fromm ranks 4 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Jean Piaget. After him are Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, and John Dewey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Erich Fromm ranks 4. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Heinrich Himmler, and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. After him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Among people deceased in 1980, Erich Fromm ranks 8. Before him are Josip Broz Tito, Karl Dönitz, John Lennon, Jean Piaget, Alfred Hitchcock, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After him are Roland Barthes, Steve McQueen, Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, Jesse Owens, and Colonel Sanders.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Fromm ranks 72 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), and Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762). After him are Ambrose (340), Albertus Magnus (1206), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Richard Strauss (1864), and Theodor Mommsen (1817).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Erich Fromm ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Karen Horney (1885), Hans Eysenck (1916), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), William Stern (1871), Karl Bühler (1879), and Karl Abraham (1877).

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