Victor Adler

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Victor Adler
Chairman of the SDAPÖ
In office
1 January 1889 – November 1918
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded byKarl Seitz
Personal details
Born(1852-06-24)24 June 1852
Prague, Bohemia,
Austrian Empire
Died11 November 1918(1918-11-11) (aged 66)
Vienna, Austria
Political partySocial Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP)
Parent(s)Salomon Markus Adler
Johanna Herzl
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
ProfessionNeurologist

Victor Adler (24 June 1852 – 11 November 1918) was an Austrian politician, a leader of the labour movement and founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP).

Life

Adler was born in Prague, the son of a Jewish merchant, who came from Leipnik in Moravia. His family moved to the Leopoldstadt borough of Vienna when he was three years old. He attended the renowned Catholic Schottenstift gymnasium, together with Heinrich Friedjung one of the few Jewish students, whereafter he studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Vienna. Having graduated in 1881, he worked as assistant of Theodor Meynert at the psychiatric department of the General Hospital.

In 1878, he had married

Friedrich was born in 1879. From 1882 to 1889, the couple resided at 19 Berggasse in the Alsergrund borough of Vienna, an address that later became famous as the office of Sigmund Freud (the present-day Sigmund Freud Museum
).

Adler initially supported the

truck system. After Gleichheit was banned, he issued the Arbeiter-Zeitung (Workers' Newspaper) from 1889. Adler travelled to Germany and Switzerland, where he met with Friedrich Engels, August Bebel and Karl Liebknecht
. He was charged several times for his activities and spent nine months in prison.

Adler, a both moderate and charismatic

Dual Monarchy[citation needed
].

Before

Friedrich Adler.[2]

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl is named after Adler, his father was a socialist and admirer of him.[3]

He died in Vienna.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Britannica.com
  2. JSTOR 1429221
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  3. ^ Pytell, T. (2000). The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Reflection on the Odd Career of Viktor Frankl. Journal of Contemporary History, 35(2), 281–306. doi:10.1177/002200940003500208

References

External links

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