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Erik Erikson

1902 - 1994

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Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity crisis. Despite lacking a university degree, Erikson served as a professor at prominent institutions, including Harvard, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Erikson as the 12th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erik Erikson is the 11th most popular psychologist (up from 13th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Germany (down from 131st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Psychologist.

Erik Erikson is most famous for his theory of psychosocial development. He believed that development occurs in eight stages and that each stage is a conflict that must be resolved in order to progress to the next stage.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Erik Erikson ranks 11 out of 235. Before him are Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, and Viktor Frankl. After him are John Dewey, William James, Carl Rogers, Gustave Le Bon, Albert Bandura, and Anna Freud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Erik Erikson ranks 5. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini, Charles Lindbergh, Karl Popper, and Georgy Malenkov. After him are Leni Riefenstahl, John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, Halldór Laxness, Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Eugene Wigner. Among people deceased in 1994, Erik Erikson ranks 10. Before him are Karl Popper, Charles Bukowski, Erich Honecker, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eugène Ionesco, and Elias Canetti. After him are Linus Pauling, Burt Lancaster, Raul Julia, Dorothy Hodgkin, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Giulietta Masina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erik Erikson ranks 138 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Frederick III, German Emperor (1831), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Max Müller (1823). After him are Henry the Fowler (876), Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980), Adolf Windaus (1876), Leopold I of Belgium (1790), Ernst Chain (1906), and Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Erik Erikson ranks 3. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), and Wilhelm Wundt (1832). After him are 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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