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Austrian psychoanalyst (1902–1988)

Fritz Redl (9 September 1902 – 9 February 1988) was an Austrian-American child psychoanalyst and educator who was born in Klaus near Schladming and died in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Career

Fritz Redl was born in Klaus, Austria. He witnessed his mother burn to death due to an accident in the kitchen when he was a small child. Redl spent most of his childhood and youth in Vienna.

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Redl came into contact with the progressive educational methods of the Austrian Montessori movement, possibly through participating in the Wandervogel. He decided to study philosophy. After completing his doctorate on the epistemological principles of Kant's ethics, Redl trained as a psychoanalyst under the influence of August Aichhorn and Anna Freud.

During the decade that followed he completed training in psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute.

While in Vienna he met Gina Weinmann, possibly because both were in analys