Josef Karl Friedjung

Josef Karl Friedjung (born May 6, 1871 in Nedweditz , Austria-Hungary ; died March 25, 1946 in Haifa , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) was an Austrian pediatrician and politician.

Life

Friedjung grew up bilingual and attended the Czech elementary school. The family moved to Vienna in 1882, where he graduated from the Academic Gymnasium (Vienna) . He volunteered for one year in Vienna and Laibach and then studied piano and composition at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna . Since his father died early, he broke off his training and switched to studying medicine at the University of Vienna . Most of the internships for this course of study were completed at the university clinic . In 1895 he was able to achieve his doctorate as “Dr. med. ”successfully complete his studies.

That same year Friedjung went for two years to Berlin to sign in Otto Heubner for Specialist in Pediatrics to be trained. At the end of 1897 he returned to Vienna and got a job as an assistant doctor at the polyclinic . In 1903 Friedjung became a member of the Association of Freemasons and Monists . In 1904 he moved to the first public children's health institute and worked there a. a. with Max Kassowitz .

Friedjung made the acquaintance of Sigmund Freud through Kassowitz and began working with him in 1905. Freud was able to win Friedjung as a member of the Psychoanalytic Association in 1909 . Between 1911 and 1914 and later again from 1919 and 1926 Friedjung was active in the management of the Children's Sickness Institute in addition to his activities as a doctor.

During the First World War he was drafted and served in Vienna, Bruck and on the Balkan Front . During the revolution of 1918 he was elected chairman of the health commission in the Vienna workers' council , where he became friends with Rudolf Dreikurs .

His political engagement brought Friedjung a mandate from the Upper Austrian Parliament in 1919 ; he held this office until 1922. Between 1922 and 1934 also acted as a social democratic municipal council in Vienna.

Friedjung completed his habilitation in pediatrics in 1920 and from 1921 he lectured at the University of Vienna. From 1925 he headed the children's outpatient clinic in Vienna-Ottakring .

In 1934, after Engelbert Dollfuss was murdered , he lost all his university posts ( Austrofascism ) and was imprisoned in the Wöllersdorf camp for a few weeks .

In the year of the Anschluss , Friedjung emigrated to Palestine and settled in Haifa. From 1940 the Jewish Agency hired him as a consultant for medical and psychological questions. Six weeks before his 74th birthday, Josef Karl Friedjung died on March 25, 1946 in Haifa, where he found his final resting place.

In 1956, Friedjunggasse in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) was named after him.

reception

The focus of Friedjungs work was the attempt to use the newly gained knowledge of psychoanalysis in paediatrics. He also tried to bring the new ways of psychotherapy , psychiatry and pedagogy into paediatrics.

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

Free choice of doctor or fixed salary for the doctor? Volume V (1929), Issue 3 (September), pp. 108-115 digitized
Declaration by Comrade Friedjung (On the foundation of the soz. Doctors International). Volume VII (1931), Issue 11 (November), pp. 302-303 digitized

literature

Walther Killy et al. a. (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . P. 451.
Friedjung Josef K .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 363.
Eran Rolnik : Freud in Hebrew: History of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine . Translation from the Hebrew David Ajchenrand. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013 ISBN 978-3-525-36992-0
Elke Mühlleitner: 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 , pp. 109-111

Web links

Literature by and about Josef Karl Friedjung in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Josef Karl Friedjung in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

^ Marcus G. Patka: Freemasonry and Social Reform. The struggle for human rights, pacifism and civil society in Austria 1869–1938. Löcker, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85409-594-1 .
↑ Sabine Zaufarek: Josef Karl Friedjung - Biography. psyalpha.net, accessed March 9, 2016.
^ Friedjung Josef K .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 363.

personal data
SURNAME	Friedjung, Josef Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian pediatrician and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nedweditz
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1946
Place of death	Haifa

[1] Marcus G. Patka: Freemasonry and Social Reform. The struggle for human rights, pacifism and civil society in Austria 1869–1938. Löcker, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85409-594-1 .

[2] Sabine Zaufarek: Josef Karl Friedjung - Biography. psyalpha.net, accessed March 9, 2016.

[3] Friedjung Josef K .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 363.