Eissler | Kurt Robert

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Eissler | Kurt Robert

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        Dates of existence

        1908-07-02--1999-02-17

        History

        Kurt Eissler was born in Vienna on 2 Jul 1908. He was a member of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society when the Nazis took power in Austria in 1938, after which he emigrated to Chicago. In 1943 he served in the US army as a Captain in the Medical Corps and following the war he settled in New York. He was known as a Freudian scholar and historian and for his work in founding the Sigmund Freud Archives, which are deposited with the US Library of Congress. He died in New York on 17 Feb 1999.

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        Physician and Psychoanalyst

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        Authority record identifier

        GB BPASA AR Eissler KR

        Institution identifier

        British Psychoanalytical Society Archive (ISDIAH, 2008)

        Rules and/or conventions used

        ISO 8601-1:2019, Date and time - Representations for information interchange.
        National Council on Archives - Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
        International Council on Archives - International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (ISDIAH), 2008.

        Status

        Revised

        Level of detail

        Partial

        Dates of creation, revision and deletion

        Revised 2024-04-04

        Language(s)

        • English

        Script(s)

        • Latin

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        Maintenance notes

        Revised by Ewan O'Neill