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Dr. Friedjung, psycho-analyst and lecturer in the University of Vienna on the treatment of children's diseases, has just celebrated his sixtieth birthday and it is fitting that a special tribute should be paid to his scientific work. For he was the first children's physician to confirm, in the numerous papers he published, the conclusions of psycho-analysis about sexual life in young children, which had in part been deduced merely from the analyses of adults. His gift of keen observation, the confidence he inspired, his sense of humour and his fatherly manner with all and sundry stood him in good stead, and so lasting was the regard in which he was held by those who came under his care that he was able to continue his observations until they grew up and often even longer. While he could thus demonstrate that sexual manifestations in children were universal and often harmless, he was, on the other hand, so convinced that they affected the pathology and behaviour of adults that he preached indefatigably to all classes the necessity for education and enlightenment in sexual matters.
Dr. Friedjung's interest in social questions has impelled him not only to spread this enlightenment both amongst his out-patients and at the meetings which he addresses, but also to take up the cause of temperance and other reforms. His love of his fellow-men caused him to enter politics and, as a social-democratic town-councillor, he has exerted a beneficent influence in municipal affairs and furthered our interests as psycho-analysts.
Upright and true to his principles, diffusing and reaping much affection, Dr. Friedjung stands in the first rank of the champions of psycho-analysis,