Biography


Victor Emil Frankl was born in Vienna on 26 March 1905. His father worked hard from being a parliamentary stenographer to becoming Minister of Social Affairs.
 Ever since he was a college student and involved in socialist youth organizations, Frankl became interested in psychology.
In 1930, he obtained his doctorate in medicine and was assigned to a room dedicated to the treatment of women with suicide attempts. At the time the Nazis came to power in 1938, Frankl assumed the post of Head of the Department of Neurology at Rothschild Hospital, the only Jewish hospital in the early years of Nazism.
But in 1942 he and his parents were deported to a concentration camp near Prague, the Theresienstadt.
Frankl survived the Holocaust, even after having been in four Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, from 1942 to 1945; not so with his parents and other relatives, who died in these camps.
Due in part to his suffering during his life in the concentration camps and while he was in them, Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy.
"Frankl returned to Vienna in 1945, and was immediately Head of the Department of Neurology at the Vienna Polyclinic Hospital, a position he would maintain for 25 years.
He taught both neurology and psychiatry.
His 32 books on existential analysis and logotherapy have been translated into 26 languages ​​and he has obtained 29 honorary doctorates in different universities of the world.
As of 1961, Frankl held 5 positions as a professor in the United States at Harvard and Stanford University, as well as in others such as Dallas, Pittsburg and San Diego.
He won the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Society of Psychiatry, as well as other distinctions from different European countries.
Frankl taught at the University of Vienna until he was 85 years old on a regular basis and was always a great mountain climber. Also, to the 67 years, obtained the license of pilot of aviation.
Victor E. Frankl died of a heart failure on September 3, 1997, leaving his wife, Eleonore and a daughter, Dr. Gabriele Frankl-Vesely.






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