Viktor Frankl

Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)

Source-basedStable

Lived 1905–1997, aged 92Austria

Austria AcademicsWriter / Author

Fame39.4
Momentum0.6
Austria rank#13
Academics rank#54
Wikipedia74.3K

Wikipedia
59 languages
Cross-language footprint
Rank in Austria
#13
Academics
Era
1905–1997
Aged 92

Summary

Updated 2026-05-29

Auschwitz survivor and psychiatrist who built a whole therapy school around the idea that meaning—not pleasure or power—drives human behavior. Logotherapy became his calling card across existential psychology.

Biography

About

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.

Profile