Franz Riklin
Franz Beda Riklin (lang; 22 April 1878, St. Gallen – 4 December 1938, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist. • Illustration — Franz Riklin in 1911 Early in his career, Franz Riklin worked at the Burghölzli Hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), and studied experimental psychology with Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) and Gustav Aschaffenburg (1866–1944) in Heidelberg. Beginning in 1904, he was a physician at the psychiatric clinic in Rheinau.
Also recorded as Franz Beda Riklin
Franz Riklin
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- Switzerland
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- psychiatrist · physicist · painter · artist
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- German
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In 1910, Riklin became the first secretary of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Riklin is remembered for his collaboration with Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) on word association tests. In 1905, the treatise Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Assoziationen Gesunder was published as a result of their research. Another important work by Riklin is Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen (Wish-Fulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales). In 1906, Riklin married Sophia Fiechter, a granddaughter of Karl Gustav Jung, thus a cousin of Carl Jung. They had four children. Their son, Franz Niklaus, became an analytical psychologist and a close associate of his uncle, Jung, whose writings he edited.
Franz Riklin is recorded with the occupation psychiatrist. Recorded as psychiatrist, physicist, painter and artist. The authorities additionally record the heading Franz Beda Riklin.
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Franz Riklin appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a psychiatrist and artist (22 April 1878 – 4 December 1938). Franz Riklin was born in Sankt Gallen (22 April 1878) and died in Küsnacht (4 December 1938).
Franz Riklin, Franz Beda Riklin Verkündigung, 1915
Franz Beda Riklin · Hans Rudolf Wilhelm: Der Psychiater und Maler Franz Beda Riklin: eine Spurensicherung, in: Schweizer Monatshefte, 81 (2001), S. 19–22 http: pid=smh-002:2001
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1878
Franz Riklin was born in 1878 at St. Gallen.
1938
Franz Riklin died in 1938 at Küsnacht.
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St. Gallen.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 10065867-2, Symposium zum 60. Geburtstag von Franz Riklin und José Hurtado Pozo (2001 : Freiburg im Üechtland).
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- 1.Korrespondenzblatt der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung
- 2.http://www.centrogiacometti.ch/it/attualita/888-susannariklin.
- 3.Augusto Giacometti, bei artinwords
- 4.Hans F. Schweers: Gemälde in Museen : Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz ; Katalog der ausgestellten und depotgelagerten Werke. 3 : Teil 1, Künstler und ihre Werke. R–Z. Saur, München 2008, S. 1252.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 10065867-2, Symposium zum 60. Geburtstag von Franz Riklin und José Hurtado Pozo (2001 : Freiburg im Üechtland).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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