Anny Katan-Rosenberg, psychoanalyst and physician, was born May 1, 1898 in Vienna, Austria, and died in Cleveland, Ohio in the U.S. on December 24, 1992.

The daughter of Mrs. Judith and Dr. Ludwig Rosenberg, she grew up in close contact with the origins of psychoanalysis as her pediatrician father and her pediatrician uncle were two of Freud's three weekly tarok card playing partners. Her uncle Oskar Rie was the Freuds' pediatrician, her cousins later spouses of Ernst Kris and Herman Nunberg. Anna Freud was a childhood acquaintance but not a particularly close companion. Ill in infancy as a failure-to-thrive baby, she was nonetheless most physically active from a young age, and was a skier, mountain climber, and horseback rider all her life.

Her analytic training was marked by a number of unusual features: prior to her analysis with Anna Freud, her first analyst became psychotic and her next two were of limited competence....