Franz Riklin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Franz Riklin

Swiss physicist (1878-1938)

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1878

Place of Birth: St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1938

Profession: physicist, psychiatrist, painter

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Franz Riklin

  • Franz Beda Riklin (22 April 1878, in St.
  • Gallen – 4 December 1938, in Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist. Early in his career, Franz Riklin worked at the Burghölzli Hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler (b.1857–d.1939), and studied experimental psychology with Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) and Gustav Aschaffenburg (b.1866–d.1944) in Heidelberg.
  • Beginning in 1904, he was a physician at the psychiatric clinic in Rheinau.
  • In 1910, Riklin became the first secretary of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Riklin is remembered for his collaboration with Carl Gustav Jung (b.1875–d.1961) on word association tests.
  • In 1905, the treatise Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Assoziationen Gesunder was published as a result of their research.
  • Another important work by Riklin is Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen (Wish-Fulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales).

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