dirtnapp / is sigmund freud alive or dead?
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 1856
- died
- 1939
- age at death
- 83
- known for
- psychoanalyst, neurologist, essayist
1856 – 1939
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where this comes from
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