Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 into a Jewish family. As a teenager he corresponded with Sigmund Freud, and he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, specialising in neurology and psychiatry. As a student he organised youth counselling centres to address the high number of teenage suicides. The Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 limited his work, and from 1940 he worked at Vienna's Rothschild Hospital. In 1942, nine months after his marriage to Tilly, he and his family were sent to the Theresienstadt camp, where his father died. In 1944 they were taken to Auschwitz, where his mother and brother were murdered; Tilly later died at Bergen-Belsen. Frankl survived four camps. After the war he became head of the neurology department of the Vienna Polyclinic hospital. In 1946 he published the book known in English as Man's Search for Meaning, which describes life in the camps and argues that people can endure great suffering if they find meaning in their lives. His approach to therapy is called logotherapy. He married Eleonore Schwindt in 1947. He died in Vienna in 1997.

Viktor E. Frankl is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: Born into a Jewish family; his personal beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia