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Friedrich Rothschild

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Friedrich Rothschild · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Psychologist and psychiatrist

When

1899, Giessen, Germany — 1995, Jerusalem, Israel

Where

Germany · Israel

Biography

Friedrich Rothschild is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychologist and psychiatrist

How & why

Friedrich Salomon Rothschild was a German-born psychiatrist and pioneer of biosemiotics who studied the relationship between the nervous system and consciousness, coining the term 'biosemiotic' in 1962. A Jew, he emigrated from Nazi Germany to Jerusalem in 1936, where he worked in psychiatry at Hadassah University Hospital. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Psychologist and psychiatrist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology