FREUD (Sigmund) and HITSCHMANN (Eduard).... - Lot 85 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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FREUD (Sigmund) and HITSCHMANN (Eduard).... - Lot 85 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
FREUD (Sigmund) and HITSCHMANN (Eduard). Letters of recommendation for Ernst Paul HOFFMANN. Ernst Paul Hoffmann was born on January 23, 1891 in what is now Romania, in Radauti, one of the eleven chief towns of the Bucovina district where in 1930 the population was 31% Jewish. Hoffmann moved to Vienna in 1909 and began his university studies. He became a doctor of medicine in 1914. He became interested in psychoanalysis and underwent an analysis with Paul Federn, then with Eduard Hitschmann who had analyzed with Freud. He became an associate member of the Psychoanalytical Society of Vienna in 1926 and an ordinary member in 1931. At the beginning of March 1938, Hoffmann travels to Belgium to give a series of lectures at the initiative of René Leclercq, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the father of one of his patients. Hoffmann is joined by his wife and son in July 1838. They only obtain a residence permit. He tries in vain to reach the United States. In a letter, Anna Freud reminds him of his father's certificate: "You can use this certificate with the American authorities. But do not get your hopes up too high. We have not yet succeeded once in obtaining a non-quota visa for an analyst. Hoffmann stayed in Belgium for only two years, but his role was fundamental: he must be considered as the founding father of psychoanalysis in Belgium. Surrendered to the French, he then stayed in several camps in France, then went to Switzerland where complaisant border guards let him enter. He went to the Malévos nursing home in the Valais region of Switzerland, where the authorities considered him to be ill, although in reality he was practicing his art. He died in Basel on December 23, 1944. According to F. Bassan and Th. Rozenblum, "Ernst Paul Hoffmann. Un psychanalyste juif en exil (1938-1944)," in Les Cahiers de la mémoire contemporaine, 12, 2016. - FREUD (Sigmund). Original typewritten letter dated "Wien den 17.VI. 1937." Beautiful handwritten autograph signature: "ProfDrFreud". One page in-4° on the letterhead of the "WIENER PSYCHOANALYTISCHE VEREINIGUNG" (traces of handling and folds, lower edge faded). Nice letter of recommendation mentioning the career and qualities of Ernst Paul Hoffmann. Freud refuses to go into exile until the invasion of Austria and the arrest of his daughter Anna for one day. He made a statement attesting that the Gestapo had treated him well. He passed through Paris and went to London where he died on September 23, 1939. - HITSCHMANN (Eduard). Original undated typed letter (1937?). Autograph handwritten signature: "Dr. Eduard Hitschmann". One page in-4° with the letterhead of the "PSYCHOANALYTISCHES AMBULATORIUM" (traces of folds). Enclosed is the typewritten French translation of the time. Nice letter of recommendation mentioning the career and qualities of Ernst Paul Hoffmann. Today somewhat forgotten, Eduard Hitschmann was born in Vienna in 1871. He obtained his doctorate in medicine and in 1904 opened an internal medicine practice. In 1905, Freud recruited him and integrated him into the Wednesday Psychological Society founded in 1905, which became the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association. From 1922 to 1938, he was director of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Outpatient Clinic. He was the Freuds' family doctor. During the invasion of Vienna, he joined Freud in London; after Freud's death, he moved to Cambridge (USA). He died in 1957. Nice and rare set.
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