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Rabbi Victor (Avigdor) Aptowitzer was born in Galicia and studied at the University of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Vienna.

Rabbinical authority Israel Isserlein was born in Regensburg and educated at the home of his uncle in Wiener Neustadt. In

David Yehoshua Horowitz studied with his father, grandfather and father-in-law, all noted rabbinical authorities. From 1795 he was rabbi of

Chaim Bloch was born in Nagy-Bocsko, Hungary, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, where he studied in various yeshivas and

Rabbinical authority. Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt (Maharam Esh) served as a dayan (judge) in Sachtschewar, Posen, (now in Poland), and

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pribor, in the Czech Republic) as the third

Theodor Reik was born in Vienna where he studied medicine. It was during this time that he developed an interest

Alexandra Adler was born in Vienna, the daughter of the distinguished psychiatrist Alfred Adler. She studied at the University of

Wilhelm Stekel was born and educated in Vienna. His interest in psychiatry led him to join a small group of

Paul Federn was born in Vienna in November 1871. His father, Joseph Solomon Federn was a distinguished physician. Federn graduated