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Fliess, Wilhelm (1858-1928)
Wilhelm Fliess, a German physician, was born October 24, 1858, in Arnswalde (Markbrandebourg) and died in Berlin on October 13, 1928. He came from a family of Sephardic Jews. His mother observed the orthodox rituals, a tradition her son did not follow. He had a brother who was stillborn and a sister, Clara, a year younger, who died of pneumonia when Wilhelm was twenty. His father was in the grain business and committed suicide when Wilhelm was nineteen years old. He never spoke of this suicide, neither to Freud—to whom he related a different version of the father's death—nor to his own children, who didn't discover the truth until after their own father's death.
Fliess studied medicine in Berlin; in 1883 he opened a practice as a general practitioner and then as an otorhinolaryngologist. The number of patients grew along with his fame. He traveled a great deal, most importantly to Paris, in 1886, a year before meeting Freud, whose lecture
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(1) Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess (12th June, 1895)
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Wilhelm Fliess
Wilhelm FließFliess (right) and Sigmund Freud
in the early 1890s.Born 24 October 1858 Arnswalde, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died 13 October 1928 (aged 69) Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, Germany
Nationality Prussian Scientific career Fields Otolaryngology Wilhelm Fliess (German: Wilhelm Fließ; 24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928) was a German otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed the pseudoscientific theory of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have not been accepted by modern scientists. He is today best remembered for his close friendship and theoretical collaboration with Sigmund Freud.
Career
Fliess developed several idiosyncratic theories, such as "vital periodicity", forerunner of the popular concepts of biorhythms. His work never found scientific favour, but some of his thinking, such as the idea of inn