Wilhelm Reich

1897 to 1957 13 documented presences 11 places

Quo Fuit places 13 dated presences for Wilhelm Reich across 11 places, from 1897 to 1957. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA

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Where Wilhelm Reich was documented, and when

24 March 1897exact date

Dobrianychiattested “Reich was born on 24 March 1897, the first of two sons to Leon Reich, a farmer, and his wife Cäcilie (née Roniger) in Dobzau, Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine, into a Jewish family.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

24 March 1897exact date

Ukraineattested “Reich was born on 24 March 1897, the first of two sons to Leon Reich, a farmer, and his wife Cäcilie (née Roniger) in Dobzau, Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine, into a Jewish family.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1924 to 1930period

Berlinattested “Reich became the assistant director under Hitschmann in 1924 and worked there until his move to Berlin in 1930.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1924year

Viennaattested “Reich joined the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute in Vienna in 1924 and became its director of training.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1927year

Davosattested “Reich himself contracted it in 1927 and spent several weeks in the winter of that year in a sanitorium in Davos, Switzerland, where TB patients went for rest cures and fresh air before antibiotics became widely available around 1945.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1929year

Soviet Unionattested “Lou Andreas-Salomé: In 1929, Reich and his wife visited the Soviet Union on a lecture tour, leaving the two children in the care of the psychoanalyst Berta Bornstein.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

November 1930month

Berlinattested “Reich and his wife moved to Berlin in November 1930, where he set up clinics in working-class areas, taught sex education and published pamphlets.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

January 1933month

Germanyattested “He was living with Lindenberg in Germany when Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

November 1933month

Denmarkattested “They moved from there to Denmark, where Reich was excluded from the Danish Communist Party in November 1933 (without ever having joined it) because of his promotion of teenage sex and the publication that year of The Mass Psychology of F…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

October 1934month

Oslo, Norwayattested “Bibring, Paul Federn declared, "Either Reich goes or I go." In October 1934, Reich and Lindenberg moved to Oslo, Norway, where Harald K.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

February 1938month

Osloattested “From 1934 to 1939, Reich conducted what he called the bion experiments, which he published as Die Bione: zur Entstehung des vegetativen Lebens in Oslo in February 1938 (published in English in 1979 and later called The Bion Experiments o…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1950year

New Yorkattested “In 1950, he decided to live there year-round, and in May that year moved from New York with Ilse, their son, Peter, and Reich's daughter Eva, with the idea of creating a centre for the study of orgone.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

18 November 1957exact date

Viennaattested “Time magazine wrote on 18 November 1957: The psychoanalyst Richard Sterba wrote in 1982 that Reich had been a brilliant clinician and teacher in the 1920s; even the older analysts had wanted to attend his technical seminars in Vienna.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

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Places Wilhelm Reich is documented in

Berlin2 presences · 1924 to 1930 Vienna2 presences · 1924 to 1957 Denmark1 presence · 1933 Germany1 presence · 1933 New York1 presence · 1950 Oslo1 presence · 1938 Soviet Union1 presence · 1929 Ukraine1 presence · 1897

Davos1 presence · 1927

Dobrianychi1 presence · 1897

Oslo, Norway1 presence · 1934

Other places tied to Wilhelm Reich in the record

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1920year

Berlinmentioned “It was the second such clinic to open under Freud's direction; the first was the Poliklinik in Berlin, set up in 1920 by Max Eitingon and Ernst Simmel.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1927year

Viennamentioned “Some months later he and Annie were on the streets during the July Revolt of 1927 in Vienna, when 84 workers were shot and killed by police and another 600 were injured.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

August 1934month

Lucernementioned “He first presented the principles of what he called character-analytic vegetotherapy in August 1934, in a paper entitled "Psychischer Kontakt und vegetative Strömung" ("Psychological Contact and Vegetative Current") at the 13th Internati…” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1935 to 1939period

Norwaymentioned “Strick, a historian of science and later president of the Wilhelm Reich Trust, began studying Reich's laboratory notebooks from the 1935–1939 bion experiments in Norway.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1939year

New Yorkmentioned “It was shortly after he arrived in New York in 1939 that Reich first said he had discovered a biological or cosmic energy, an extension of Freud's idea of the libido.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

December 1940month

Princeton, New Jerseymentioned “In December 1940, Reich wrote to Albert Einstein saying he had a scientific discovery he wanted to discuss, and in January 1941 visited Einstein at his home in Princeton, where they talked for nearly five hours.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

May 1941month

The New Schoolmentioned “He began teaching at The New School, where he remained until May 1941, living first at 7502 Kessel Street, Forest Hills, Queens, where he conducted experiments on mice with cancer, injecting them with bions.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

November 1942month

Rangeley, Mainementioned “In 2000 it released 789 pages of the file: In November 1942, Reich purchased an old farm for $4,000 on Dodge Pond, Maine, near Rangeley, with of land.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1947year

United Statesmentioned “Until 1947, Reich enjoyed largely uncritical attention from the press in the United States.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1952year

New Yorkmentioned “According to Turner, a nurse complained in 1952 to the New York Medical Society that an OIRC therapist had taught her five-year-old son how to masturbate.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

29 July 1952exact date

Orgononmentioned “On 29 July 1952 three inspectors arrived at Orgonon unannounced.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1953year

Mainementioned “During a drought in 1953, two farmers in Maine offered to pay him if he could make it rain to save their blueberry crop.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

1955year

Orgononmentioned “He was buried in a vault at Orgonon that he had asked his caretaker to dig in 1955.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

May 1956month

Arizonamentioned “While Reich was in Arizona in May 1956, one of his associates sent an accumulator part through the mail to another state, in violation of the injunction, after an FDA inspector posing as a customer requested it.” source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

5 June 1956exact date

Orgononmentioned source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

12 March 1957exact date

Danbury Federal Prisonmentioned source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm Reich

Documented at the same place, the same year

Erwin ChargaffVienna · 1924 Georgi DimitrovGermany · 1933 Carsten BorchgrevinkOslo, Norway · 1934 Thomas KlestilVienna · 1957 Emil ArtinVienna · 1957 Aram KhachaturianMoscow Conservatory · 1929 Nadezhda AlliluyevaMoscow Conservatory · 1929 Yumjaagiin TsedenbalMoscow Conservatory · 1929 Joris IvensMoscow Conservatory · 1929 Arnold SchoenbergBerlin · 1924 Nestor MakhnoBerlin · 1924 Emma GoldmanBerlin · 1924

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Sources

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