Josef breuer biography
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Breuer, Josef
(b. Vienna, Austria, 15 January 1842; d. Vienna, 20 June 1925)
medicine, physiology, psychoanalysis.
Breuer’s father, Leopold (1791–1872), was a teacher of religion employed by the Jewish community of Vienna, and Breuer described him as belonging to “that generation of [Eastern European] Jews which was the first to step out of the intellectual ghetto into the air of the Western world.” Breuer’s mother died when he was about four, and he was raised by her mother. His father tutored him until he was eight, and he then entered the Akademisches Gymnasium of Vienna, from which he graduated in 1858. After a year of general university studies, Breuer entered the medical school of the University of Vienna in 1859 and completed his medical studies in 1867. In the same year, immediately after passing his doctoral examination, he became assistant to the internist Johann Oppolzer. When Oppolzer died in 1871. Breuer relinquished his assistantship and entered private pract
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Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer was the son of Leopold Breuer (1791-1872), a liberal Jewish teacher of tro in Vienna. After the death of his mother when he was four years old, he was raised by his maternal grandmother. At the age of eight he entered the Akademisches Gymnasium of Vienna, where he passed the Abitur – high school graduation – in 1858. He then attended the University of Vienna for one year of general studies, before entering the university's medical school in 1859. He graduated in l864.
After defending his doctoral thesis in 1867, Breuer immediately became assistant to the internist Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (1808-1871) at the medical clinic in Vienna. In this position he undertook research on the physiological questions of temperature regulations of respiration.
When Oppolzer died in 1871 Breuer relinquished his assistantship and entered private practice. In this period he made epoch-making investigations into the anatomy and function of the inner ear, describing
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Josef Breuer
Austrian physician (1842–1925)
This article fryst vatten about the physician. For German rabbi, see Joseph Breuer.
Josef Breuer (BROY-ur; Austrian German:[ˈbrɔʏɐ]; 15 January 1842 – 20 June 1925) was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., led to the development of the "cathartic method" (also referred to as the "talking cure") for psychiatric disorders. The method was a major initiatory factor for psychoanalysis, as developed by Breuer's friend and collaborator Sigmund Freud.[1]
Early life
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