Ernst Paul Hoffmann

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Ernst Paul Hoffmann in the Vienna Psychoanalytical Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (standing, 1st from left).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann

Ernst Paul Hoffmann , also Isaak Hoffmann or Jakob Hoffmann (born January 23, 1891 in Radautz , Austria-Hungary ; died December 1944 in Switzerland ) was an Austrian psychoanalyst .

Life

Isaak Hoffmann attended high school in Radautz and in Czernowitz , where he received his Matura in 1909. He studied medicine in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1914. As senior physician in the reserve, he took part in World War I from 1914 to 1918 and received the Military Merit Cross on Ribbon and the Karl Troop Cross . He then worked as a dentist until 1925 .

Hoffmann began his training analysis with Paul Federn and Eduard Hitschmann in 1922 and worked from 1924 to 1937 as a secondary physician and assistant at the psychoanalytic outpatient clinic of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association , of which he was admitted in 1926 as an extraordinary member and in 1931 as a full member. In 1936 he gave the lecture Introduction to Psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute. From 1927 he ran a private psychoanalytic practice in the 6th district in Vienna.

After Austria was annexed in 1938, he emigrated to Belgium with his family. There he was training analyst for the later founders of the Association des Psychanalystes de Belgique (APB). He only received the American Psychological Association's affidavit for the United States when the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940. They imprisoned him for several months in the camp in Saint-Cyprien in southern France. From there he was transferred to the Camp de Gurs . He turned down the possibility of traveling to Cuba as his family was still being held in Belgium. In 1941 he was transferred to the Les Milles camp, from which he was able to escape to friends in Marseille in 1942 . These brought him across the Swiss border, where he was housed in a refugee camp near Lausanne . Hoffmann suffered a stomach ailment while in captivity and died in December 1944 during an operation.

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Hoffmann, Ernst Paul , in: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , p. 157f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Reichmayr : Expulsion of the Psychoanalysts , in: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Displaced reason. Emigration and exile of Austrian science. Volume 1. Vienna: Jugend und Volk, 1987, p. 134
  2. ^ History of psychoanalysis in Belgium , in: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon


personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ernst Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Isaak; Hoffmann, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Radautz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 1944
Place of death Switzerland