Deaths on March 18

Erich Fromm

Died on March 18, 1980

Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)

Erich Seligmann Fromm (; German: [fʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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Deaths on March 18

Erich Fromm

Died on March 18, 1980

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