PHILOSOPHER

Josef Breuer

1842 - 1925

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Josef Breuer ( BROY-ur; Austrian German: [ˈbrɔʏɐ]; 15 January 1842 – 20 June 1925) was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., led to the development of the "cathartic method" (also referred to as the "talking cure") for psychiatric disorders. The method was a major initiatory factor for psychoanalysis, as developed by Breuer's friend and collaborator Sigmund Freud. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Breuer is the 244th most popular philosopher (down from 220th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Austria (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Philosopher.

Josef Breuer is most famous for co-authoring a book with Sigmund Freud called Studies in Hysteria. The book discussed the treatment of patients with hysteria.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Josef Breuer ranks 244 out of 1,267. Before him are Michael Psellos, Prodicus, Franz Brentano, Al-Jahiz, Gabriel Marcel, and Milarepa. After him are George Herbert Mead, Pelagius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Shen Kuo, Imre Lakatos, and Bias of Priene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Josef Breuer ranks 11. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Jules Massenet, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, and Dominic Savio. After him are Camille Flammarion, Paul Lafargue, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Arrigo Boito, Hermann Cohen, and Osborne Reynolds. Among people deceased in 1925, Josef Breuer ranks 15. Before him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Georgy Lvov, Johann Palisa, Sergei Yesenin, Henri Fayol, and Władysław Reymont. After him are Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Mikhail Frunze, Camille Flammarion, Felix Klein, Léon Bourgeois, and Alexander Friedmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josef Breuer ranks 130 out of 1,424. Before him are Józef Poniatowski (1763), Alois Brunner (1912), Geli Raubal (1908), Milutin Milanković (1879), Richard Kuhn (1900), and Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857). After him are Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742), Georg Trakl (1887), Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Heinrich Harrer (1912), and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Austria

Among philosophers born in Austria, Josef Breuer ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Karl Popper (1902), Martin Buber (1878), and Paul Feyerabend (1924). After him are Ivan Illich (1926), Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), Jean Améry (1912), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), and André Gorz (1923).

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