10 facts about Sigmund Freud

1. Sigmund Freud is the founder of the science of psychology.
2. Freud was born on 6 May 1856, to Jewish Galician parents in the Moravian town of Příbor, Austrian Empire, which is now part of the Czech Republic. Freud was born with a caul, which the family accepted as a positive omen.
3. Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856.
4. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
5. His book The Interpretation of Dreams began the complex theory of Psychoanalytic.
6. Diagnosed with cancer in 1923 due to frequent cigar smoking, Sigmund Freud underwent over 30 surgeries over the next 16 years.
7. Sigmund Freud was deathly afraid of the number 62 and would not book a room in any hotel with more than 62 rooms in case he was allotted that particular room!
8. In 1930, Freud received the Goethe Prize in appreciation of his contribution to psychology and to German literary culture.
9. Sigmund Freud had a penchant for rejecting people who did not totally agree with him.
10. Freud was 83 years old when he asked his doctor to end his life, and died of a physician-assisted morphine overdose in London on September 23, 1939.