Viktor Frankl

Frankl was born in 1905 in Vienna. Before the Second World War he
graduated with two doctorates in medicine and philosophy from the
University of Vienna. During the war he spent three years at Auschwitz,
Dachau, and other concentration camps. Man's Search for Meaning
was written on Frankl's return to Vienna after liberation, and was dictated
over nine days.
The ensuing years were spent as chief of the neurology department
of the Policlinic Hospital, Vienna, but in the 1960s he moved to the
United States. He held visiting professorships at Harvard and other US
universities and did over 50 American lecture tours. Throughout his life
he was a keen mountain climber.
Frankl wrote more than 30 books, including Psychotherapy and
Existentialism, The Unconscious God and The Unheard Cry for Meaning,
and in the year of his death published an autobiography, Victor
Frankl: Recollections. There have been at least 145 books and more
than 1,400 journal articles written about Frankl and logotherapy, and
Frankl himself received 28 honorary degrees.
He died in 1997, in the same week as Mother Teresa and Princess
Diana.