Wilhelm fliess biography of martin

Wilhelm Fliess, a German physician, was born October 24, 1858, in Arnswalde (Markbrandebourg) and died in Berlin on October 13, 1928.

He came from a family of Sephardic Jews. His mother observed the orthodox rituals, a tradition her son did not follow. He had a brother who was stillborn and a sister, Clara, a year younger, who died of pneumonia when Wilhelm was twenty.

His father was in the grain business and committed suicide when Wilhelm was nineteen years old.

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He never spoke of this suicide, neither to Freud—to whom he related a different version of the father's death—nor to his own children, who didn't discover the truth until after their own father's death.

Fliess studied medicine in Berlin; in 1883 he opened a practice as a general practitioner and then as an otorhinolaryngologist.

The number of patients grew along with his fame. He traveled a great deal, most importantly to Paris, in 1886, a year before meeting Freud, whose lecture