1905-1997
Jewish psychiatrist and author who developed the discipline of logotherapy.

Born March 26, 1905, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria); died September 2, 1997, in Vienna,

Austria, of heart failure. Viktor E. Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and author, drew on his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust (Nazi Germany's campaign to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe during World War II) to develop the discipline of logotherapy, a form of psychotherapy that, by stressing the need to find meaning even in the most tragic circumstances, offered solace to millions of readers of his classic work, Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.

Frankl grew up in Vienna, the birthplace of modern psychiatry and home of the renowned psychiatrists