Wilhelm Fliess

Wilhelm Fliess ( born October 24, 1858 in Arnswalde, † October 13, 1928 in Berlin) was a German biologist who holds a doctorate doctor and medical officer.

Life

Flow, the son of a Jewish family, was nose and throat specialist. His practice was located in Berlin's Tiergarten district in the Wichmannstraße 4a. He was also president of the German Academy of Sciences. He wrote in 1906 a first treatise on an alleged temporal regularity in disease, health, and date of death, which he believed feststzustellen in the course of the disease of his patients: the biorhythm. Flow has operated on Emma Eckstein.

Wilhelm Fliess was a close friend and confidant of Sigmund Freud. With him, Freud through his self-analysis and was able to set up a model. However, flow and Freud increasingly alienated, in 1903, they met for the last time. The correspondence between Freud and flow from the years 1887-1904 was published in 1950 in the form of retouched; responsible for the deletions were Anna Freud and Ernst Kris. 1985 Jeffrey Masson gave an uncensored edition of the correspondence out.

Flow had two sons. His grave is located in Berlin's Dahlem cemetery.