PSYCHOLOGIST

Karl Abraham

1877 - 1925

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Karl Abraham (German: [ˈaːbʁaham]; 3 May 1877 – 25 December 1925) was an influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil'. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Abraham is the 71st most popular psychologist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 965th most popular biography from Germany (down from 854th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Psychologist.

Karl Abraham was a psychoanalyst and is most famous for being the first to explore the connection between homosexuality and the Oedipus complex.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl Abraham ranks 71 out of 235Before him are Raymond Moody, Philip Zimbardo, Bruno Bettelheim, Alexander Luria, Karl Bühler, and Margaret Mahler. After him are Otto Rank, Ernst Kretschmer, Mary Ainsworth, Geert Hofstede, Wilfred Bion, and Stanislav Grof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Karl Abraham ranks 29Before him are Ernst von Dohnányi, Mykola Leontovych, Aga Khan III, Henry Norris Russell, Enrico De Nicola, and Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. After him are Emil Abderhalden, Plutarco Elías Calles, Oswald Avery, Alfred Kubin, Said Nursî, and Arthur Cecil Pigou. Among people deceased in 1925, Karl Abraham ranks 34Before him are Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Oliver Heaviside, H. Rider Haggard, John Singer Sargent, Pier Giorgio Frassati, and Percy Fawcett. After him are Christian Krohg, Robert M. La Follette, Christian Michelsen, Lovis Corinth, Pierre Louÿs, and Max Linder.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Abraham ranks 965 out of 7,253Before him are Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Karl Bühler (1879), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), Sigmund Jähn (1937), and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792). After him are Georg Elser (1903), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), Josef Terboven (1898), and Josef Albers (1888).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Karl Abraham ranks 12Before him are Hans Eysenck (1916), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), William Stern (1871), and Karl Bühler (1879). After him are Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Bastian (1826), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Charlotte Bühler (1893), and Ulric Neisser (1928).