Week 10: Alfred Adler
ALFRED ADLER
Biography
•Born on February 7, 1870 in Penzing, Austria
•Second of six children; was raised in Vienna in the suburbs
•Age of 5 developed pneumonia; this life threatening experience motivated Adler to pursue medicine
•In 1895, received medical degree at University of Vienna; here he met a group of social students & his future wife, Raissa Timofeyewna Epstein, an intellect*
•Married in 1897 and had four children