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(a) German Edition:
1901 In J. L. Pagel's Biographisches Lexicon hervorragender ärzte des neunzehnten. Fahrhunderts [Biographical Lexicon of Eminent Doctors of the Nineteenth Century]. Berlin and Vienna, Column 545.
It appears that this has never been reprinted and that this translation, by James Strachey, is the first into English.
Internal evidence shows that this must have been written in the autumn of 1899. It is of interest as showing the view which Freud expected to have taken of his activities on the eve of the publication of the work which was to revolutionize his position in the scientific world. The numerous abbreviations in the original have been expanded.
Freud, Sigm., Vienna. Born May 6, 1856, at Freiberg in Moravia. Studied in Vienna. Pupil of Brücke, the physiologist. Promotion [M.D. degree], 1881. Pupil of Gharcot in Paris, 1885-6. Habilitation [appointment as Privatdozent], 1885. Has worked as physician and Dozent at Vienna University since 1886. Proposed as Professor Extraordinarius, 1897.1 Earlier, Freud produced writings on histology and cerebral anatomy, and, subsequently, clinical works on neuropathology; translated writings by Charcot and Bernheim. In 1884 ‘Über Coca’ [‘On Coca’], a paper which introduced cocaine into medicine. In 1891 Zur Auffassung der Aphasien [On the Interpretation of the Aphasias]. In 1891 and 1893 monographs on the cerebral palsies of children, which culminated in 1897 in the volume on the subject in Nothnagel's Handbuch. In 1895 Studien über Hysterie [Studies on Hysteria] (with Dr. J. Breuer). Since then Freud has turned to the study of the psychoneuroses and especially hysteria, and in a series of shorter works he has stressed the aetiological significance of sexual life for the neuroses. He has also developed a new psychotherapy of hysteria, on which only extremely little has been published. A book, Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams], is in the press.