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