Sigmund Freud Biography 1856-1939 he was the Founder of psychoanalysis • Austrian physician, neurologist, psychologist • Born in Moravia (Czech Republic) in a middle class family • Studied at Vienna University where he became interested in neurological research • Spent three years at General Hospital Vienna and worked in nervous diseases, psychiatry, and dermatology • 1885: Became professor of neuropathology at Vienna University • 1885: Following a government grant went to Paris as a student of French neurologist Jean Charcot, who was treating nervous diseases through ...