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Since the death of Sigmund Freud in September, 1939, a great number of books and a flood of essays have been published about his life and work. It could very well be that Freud will become and perhaps already is the most frequently studied and most carefully researched personality in the recent history of science and the humanities.
When I summarized the literature about the person and the work of Sigmund Freud from the years after his death until 1975, I published three essays (1976) (in German translation). One was about Freud as a letter writer, cataloging and summarizing all his published correspondence. A second essay summarized follow up studies of Freud's classical case reports. In a third publication written in co-authorship with Jürgen vom Scheidt, we gave a collective review of Freud as seen by his biographers. The text of these essays, published in 1977, covers 240 pages and the bibliography gives over 300 references.
The report which follows here continues where these three essays left off.
In May, 1938, shortly after the occupation of Austria by the German Army, and a few months before the immigration of Sigmund Freud and his family from Vienna to London, Edmund Engelman made numerous documentary photographs of Sigmund