Life and Educational Background
Erich Fromm was born March 23, 1900, in Frankfurt, Germany, and he lived until his death on March 18, 1980, in Locarno, Switzerland (Funk 2000). He was an only child of Orthodox Jewish parents. From his first breath, Fromm was thrust into an environment rich in theology, social factors, and science. He received early training in jurisprudence and sociology at the University of Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate degree in sociology in 1922. In the mid-1920s, Fromm obtained training as a psychoanalyst under Frieda Reichmann’s sanatorium at Heidelberg. He married Reichmann in 1926.
In 1930 Fromm completed his training in psychoanalysis at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and then fled Germany to Geneva, ultimately landing in the USA in 1934, due to the Nazi uprising in Germany and Europe. In 1942 Fromm and Reichmann divorced after being separated for a long time. In 1944 Fromm married Henny Gurland who witnessed Walter Benjamin commit...
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Wells, E., Johnson, F., Rupp, G., Dunn, S.M. (2020). Fromm, Erich. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_2165
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