Childhood, School Years
1856 - 6 May: Sigmund freud was born Sigismund Freud in Freiberg(nowadays Pribor). He changed his name to Sigmund at 22. His Jewish name was Schlomo. in Moravia (the Czech Republic).
1859 - The economic crisis ruins his father’s business. The family settles in Vienna, in Leopoldstadt, the Jewish neighborhood
1870 – He is greatly influenced by the complete works of Ludwig Borne .
1873 - He receives a summa cum laudae award on graduation from secondary school. He is very fluent in German and in addition is able to read in several languages. Under his colleague's Heinrich Braun influence, he plans to study law. However he decides on medicine after having attended a lecture on Goethe's essay On Nature and starts his studies at Vienna University.
1876 - His first personal research in Trieste, on sexual glands of anguilas and joins Brucke's laboratory.
1877 - Publishes the result of his anatomical research on the central nervous system of a specific larva.
1878 – He continues his research in Brucke's laboratory, which brings him to a step's distance from the discovery of the neuron (called as such by Waldeyer in 1891). He befriend Breur, who is his senior by 14 years, who provides him moral and material support.
1879 - Attends Meynert's courses in psychiatry. His sole interest is the neurological aspect of issues under debate.
1880 - A year of military service. Breuer provides treatment to Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.). Freud translates 4 essays by Stuart Mills. He is not willing to dedicate himself to medical practice but rather to research or teaching. .
1881 - A delayed award of a doctor's degree in medicine.
1882 - Given the material difficulties he is undergoing, Freud cannot dedicate himself to a career in research. He meets Martha Bernays (of family of Jewish intellectuals) and intends to get married with her. In November, Breuer talks to him about the Anna O. case, which had been interrupted in June.
1883 - Joins Meynert's service in the Psychiatric Hospital.
1884 - Discovers the analgesic properties of cocaine. Carl Koller is the one publishing a successful study in that respect. Freud himself uses cocaine as a tonic but prescribes it to his friend Fleischl who was morphine addicted, thereby aggravating his situation [learn more…]. He is criticized in medical circles.. He at the same time devised a method for coloring neurologic preparations (for the microscope) and publishes an article in that respect as well as a monograph on coke.
1885-. He is appointed Privatdozent, then is awarded a grant for a study tour and chooses to go to Paris, to visit Charcot at the Salpetriere Hospital. He is able to observe the manifestations of hysteria and the effects of hypnosis and suggestion here. Charcot leaves him with special impression. Freud volunteers to translate his lectures.
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