2017-02-14
Enormous Sigmund Freud collection available online for the first time
In 1859, a Jewish wool and textile merchant from Moravia tried to immigrate to Leipzig, Saxony (now part of Germany), with his wife, toddler son and infant daughter. He carried with him a “good conduct certificate,” or personal reference, in ornate script, from the mayor of their official home village. But it was not enough: A restriction barred Jews from settling there. So the family moved to Vienna, the toddler grew up to be the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the rest is history.
