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Ludwig Binswanger

1881 - 1966

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Ludwig Binswanger (; Swiss Standard German: [ˈbɪnsvaŋər]; 13 April 1881 – 5 February 1966) was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology. His parents were Robert Johann Binswanger (1850–1910) and Bertha Hasenclever (1847–1896). Robert's German-Jewish father Ludwig "Elieser" Binswanger (1820–1880) was founder, in 1857, of the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen. Robert's brother Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Jena. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Binswanger is the 85th most popular psychologist (down from 77th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 109th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Psychologist.

Ludwig Binswanger was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who is most famous for his work on existential psychotherapy.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 85 out of 235. Before him are Alexander Bain, David Wechsler, George Armitage Miller, Timothy Leary, Paul Watzlawick, and Hugo Münsterberg. After him are G. Stanley Hall, Edward C. Tolman, Harry Stack Sullivan, Auguste Forel, Théodule-Armand Ribot, and Benjamin Bloom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 55. Before him are Emil Ludwig, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Lewis Fry Richardson, P. G. Wodehouse, Artur Phleps, and Nikolai Myaskovsky. After him are Hakaru Hashimoto, Kim Kyu-sik, Giovanni Papini, Franz Gürtner, Victor Klemperer, and Max Pechstein. Among people deceased in 1966, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 44. Before him are Alexander von Falkenhausen, Charlotte Cooper, Hannes Kolehmainen, Battista Farina, Gino Severini, and Herbert Gille. After him are Elizabeth Arden, Cléo de Mérode, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Lao She, Siegfried Kracauer, and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 130 out of 1,015. Before him are Didier Queloz (1966), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Marthe Keller (1945), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), and Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702). After him are Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Mario Adorf (1930).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Ludwig Binswanger ranks 4. Before him are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), and Hermann Rorschach (1884). After him are Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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