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Sigmund Freud, physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and to some known as the father of psychoanalysis, was born May 6, 1856, in a small town called Freiberg in Moravia, today a part of Czechoslovakia.
Freud was the firstborn in a Viennese family of three boys and five girls. His father was known to have a good sense of humor and work as a wool merchant and his mother a lively and none to say good looking women. When Freud was four his family fled from the anti-Semitic riots that were happening in Freiberg, and moved to the German city of Leipzig. Shortly there after Freud moved to Vienna where he lived for much of his life.
Even though Freud's family had limited finances and were forced to live in a crowded apartment, his parents made every effort to foster his obvious intellectual capacities.
Although Freud’s ambition from childhood had been a career in law, he became intrigued by the rapidly developing sciences of the day after reading the work of British......

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