Sigmund Freud Home - Vienna

Sigmund Freud's home is located on Bergasse in Vienna, Austria.  It was here the noted psychoanalyst and his family lived from 1891 to 1938.  Freud's family first moved to Vienna in 1860.  He enetered the University of Vienna in 1873, graduated with a M.D. in 1881 and joined the Vienna General Hospital in 1882.  By 1886 he had married Martha Bernays, with whom he would have six children, and resigned his position at the hospital.  That same year he began his private practice.  In 1891 Freud found this newly built apartment to house both his home and his work.  He would spend the next 47 years of his life here, engaging in his most well known studies, and producing almost his entire body of work, including On Aphasia (1891), The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1904), Beyond The Pleasure Principle (1920), The Ego and The Id (1923) and Civilization and Its Discontents (1930).  In 1923 Freud, who had been smoking for over forty years, found a growth on his lip, which would be later diagnosed as epithelioma.  Refusing to quit, he battled the cancer to his death in 1939.  After the Nazis annexed Austria in March of 1938, and anti-semitism escalated, Freud and his family left the country in June and sought exile in England.  He spent the next year and a half of his life lving in London, before his death on September 23, 1939.  In 1971 Freud's home was turned into the Sigmund Freud Museum, which still operates under the control of the Sigmund Freud Foundation.     

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