Ludwig Eidelberg

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Ludwig Eidelberg in the Vienna Psychoanalytical Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (standing, 2nd from left).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann
Wagner-Jauregg's medical team in Vienna in 1927 (Ludwig Eidelberg stands in the back row in the middle and dominates the scene.)

Ludwig Eidelberg (born December 27, 1898 in Złoczów , Austria-Hungary ; died November 13, 1970 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst .

Life

Ludwig Eidelberg's father Ihamar Eidelberg was a lawyer in Złoczów. Ludwig's siblings Sigmund and Stephanie were victims of the Holocaust . After the outbreak of the First World War, Eidelberg attended grammar school in Vienna and, after graduating from high school , did military service from 1916. From 1918 he studied medicine in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1925. In 1924 he married Paula Huttner from Budapest, who died in 1938.

From 1925 to 1932 he worked at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology with Julius Wagner-Jauregg and his successor Otto Pötzl , who, however, joined the NSDAP in 1930 . Since 1932, he worked in the neurological outpatient clinic of workers health insurance . In 1928 he became an extraordinary and in 1933 a full member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association . He completed a training analysis with Ruth Mack Brunswick . He opened a psychoanalytic practice in Vienna. Eidelberg was a football fan , which his bourgeois professional colleagues criticized as "cultureless".

After Austria's annexation in 1938, he emigrated to France and in 1939 fled to England with his second wife, Marthe Elkmann from Basel , and their son Philippe. There the British Psychoanalytical Society made it possible for him to work in Oxford . In 1940 he was expelled as an enemy alien and was able to enter the USA, where he was allowed to open a practice.

He became a member of the New York Psychoanalytical Society and was able to work in the psychiatric department of Mount Sinai Hospital from 1942 . From 1943 he also worked at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and from 1958 at the Kings County Hospital Center . He received a professorship at New York Downtown Hospital and was President of the New York Psychoanalytical Society in 1959.

Eidelberg published the Encyclopedia of psychoanalysis in 1968 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies in psychoanalysis . New York: International Universities Press, 1948
  • Take off your mask . New York: Pyramid Books 1948
    • The face behind the mask: a psychoanalyst's working day . German by Gertrud Huebner. Stuttgart: Hippokrates-Verlag, 1948
  • The dark urge . New York: Pyramid Books, 1961
  • (Ed.): Encyclopedia of psychoanalysis . New York: Free Press, 1968

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Eidelberg, Ludwig. 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 , pp. 80f.
  • Eidelberg, Ludwig. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 259 (entry 906).
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss : Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 245
  • Rolf Lindhorst: Life and work of Ludwig Eidelberg . Mainz, Univ. : Medicine, Diss., 1975

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sterba : Memories of a Viennese Psychoanalyst . Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1985, pp. 154f.
personal data
SURNAME Eidelberg, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Złoczów
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1970
Place of death New York City