Rudolf Allers | |
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| Born | (1883-01-13)13 January 1883 |
| Died | 18 December 1963 (aged 80) Washington, U.S. |
| Nationality | Austrian & American |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna Catholic University of America Georgetown University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
Rudolf Allers (13 January 1883,Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 18 December 1963,Washington, US) was anAustrian-Americanpsychiatrist and academic.
Rudolf Allers was born in Vienna on January 13, 1883. He was the son of a doctor,Mark Allers(1837–1894, originally of Jewish extraction) and Augusta Grailich (1858–1916, daughter ofWilhelm Josef Grailich and Carolina Augusta von Ettingshausen). In 1908, he married Carola Meitner (a sister ofLise Meitner).[1]
Allers was the onlyCatholic to join the first group of the founder of psychoanalysisSigmund Freud. Together withAlfred Adler, he later distanced himself frompsychoanalysis as understood by Freud and his followers. He was later detached from the group of Adler in 1927. He taught at theUniversity of Vienna (1919).
Allers was master ofViktor Frankl in 1925–1930, mentor ofHans Urs von Balthasar and friend of SaintEdith Stein. Both von Balthasar and Stein lived for several months in Allers' home in Vienna in 1931.[2]
He studied the preventive method ofSt. John Bosco and hispedagogical applications, and at the invitation of FatherAgostino Gemelli, was inItaly to study the philosophy ofSt. Thomas Aquinas at theCatholic University of Milan and graduated in Philosophy in 1934.[3]
With the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich, Allers emigrated to the United States, where he taught at theCatholic University of America in Washington D.C. (1938–1948), then as professor of philosophy atGeorgetown University from 1948 until his death in 1963.[4] Allers died in 1963 and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery inWashington, D.C.
He was aGuggenheim Fellow in 1958.[5]
