The Biography of Erik Erikson Erick Erickson was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 15, 1902. "His biological father was an unnamed Danish man who abandoned Erik's mother before he was born. His mother, Karla Abrahamsen, was a young Jewish woman who raised him alone for the first three years of his life. She then married Dr. Theodor Homberger, who was Erik's pediatrician, and moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany" (Boeree, 1997, par. 14). "The development of identity seems …showed first 75 words of 513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 513 total…version of Freudian theory. These themes--the influence of culture on personality and the analysis of historical figures--were repeated in other works, one of which, Gandhi's truth, won him the Pulitzer Prize and the national Book Award" (Boeree, 1997, par.22). "He spent ten years working and teaching at a clinic in Massachusetts, and ten years more back at Harvard. Since retiring in 1970, he wrote and did research with his wife. He died in 1994" (Boeree, 1997, par.23). Word Count: 524