Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, which today is Pribor in the Czech Republic. His father Jakob was a Jewish wool merchant from Galicia, and his mother Amalie was also Galician and Jakob Freud's third wife. His mother was twenty years younger than her husband; who was fourty when Sigmund was born. Sigmund was one of eight children in the family including two half brothers from his father's first marriage. This family provided sufficient complexity for the young man to gather a great deal of material he could use later in his analysis of the mind and of family relations. The family settled in Vienna in 1860. Freud was encouraged to think grandly and poured his energy and gifts into school, gaining top rank in his class year after year. When he entered the University of Vienna, he was only 17. He studied in the faculty of medicine and graduated in 1881. He was brought up in a non religious household and graduated a stronger atheist than he had entered, convinced of the strictly scientific nature of the world. When he left the university in 1882, he was secretly engaged, and he found a job at the Vienna General Hospital in hopes of earning enough money to marry. Still, he did not marry until September of 1886, and then only thanks to the generosity of his friends. He and his wife would eventually have six children (Stevenson).
He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1881. In September 1891, Freud moved to 19 Berggasse in Vienna, where he would live and work for the next 47 years ("Freud--Austrian"). It was in his 1896 paper, "The Aetiology of Hysteria," that Freud first used the term "Psycho Analysis." In October of 1902, a circle of physicians grouped around Freud began a weekly discussion of Psycho Analysis, and from 1908 on the group called itself "Vienna Psycho Analytical Society." In 1910, the "International Psycho Analytical Associat...