Erich Fromm

Born

March 23, 1900

Died

March 18, 1980 (aged 79)

Known as

university teacher, sociologist, psychoanalyst, writer, psychologist, philosopher

Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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