Ernst Kris and Marianne Kris papers, 1872-2018

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Biographical Notes

Ernst Kris

Date	Event
1900, Apr. 26	Born, Vienna, Austria
1922	Ph.D., art history, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1922-1938	Associate curator, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
1924	Entered analysis with Helene Deutsch
1927	Married Marianne Rie (died 1980)
1927-1938	Member, Institute of Psychoanalysis, Vienna, Austria
1929	Published Meister und Meisterwerke der Steinscheidekunst in der Italienischen Renaissance. Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co.
1930-1938	Faculty member and training analyst, Institute of Psychoanalysis, Vienna, Austria
1932-1938	Joint editor, Imago, Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Psychologie
1933	Published article on Austrian sculptor, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, "Ein geisteskranker Bildhauer" ("A Psychotic Sculptor of the Eighteenth Century")
1937	Awarded Croix de Chevalier, Légion d'honneur (France)
1938	Emigrated from Austria to London, England
1938-1940	Lecturer and psychologist, Institute of Psycho-analysis, London, England
1939-1940	Senior research officer conducting analysis of German radio propaganda, British Broadcasting Corp. Monitoring Service
1940	Immigrated to the United States and settled in New York, N.Y. Visiting professor, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
1941	Visiting professor, College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.
1941-1944	Codirector, Research Project on Totalitarian Communication, New York, N.Y.
1943	Lecturer, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
1944	Appointed managing editor, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Published with Hans Speier, et al., German Radio Propaganda. London: Oxford University Press
1946	Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
1950	Organized longitudinal study of child development with Milton J. E. Senn, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1952	Published Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art. New York: International Universities Press
1954	Edited with Princess Marie Bonaparte and Anna Freud Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes, 1887-1902, introduction by Kris. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
1957, Feb. 27	Died, New York, N.Y.
1975	Publication of Selected Papers of Ernst Kris. New Haven: Yale University Press

Marianne Kris

Date	Event
1900, May 27	Born, Vienna, Austria
1925	M.D., University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1925-1927	Psychoanalytic training, Berlin, Germany
1927	Married Ernst Kris (died 1957)
1928-1938	Member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Vienna, Austria
1930-1938	Private practice in psychoanalysis, Vienna, Austria
1931	Birth of daughter, Anna Kris Wolff (died 2019)
1934	Birth of son, Anton O. Kris (died 2021)
1938	Emigrated from Austria to London, England
1938-1940	Training analyst, British Psychoanalytic Society Private practice in psychoanalysis, London, England
1940	Immigrated to the United States and settled in New York, N.Y.
circa 1940-circa 1980	Private practice in psychoanalysis, New York, N.Y.
1944	Became member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
circa 1944-circa 1945	Began work as a training analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
1946-1950	Consultant child analyst, Council Child Development Center, New York, N.Y.
1950-1952	Leader, Seminar for Pediatricians in New York Hospital, New York, N.Y.
circa 1953-1957	Participant, longitudinal study of child development led by Ernst Kris, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1957	Published "The Use of Prediction in a Longitudinal Study" in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
circa 1957-circa 1975	Consultant and senior research associate, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1958	Joined editorial board, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Yale University Press
1965	Cofounder and president, American Association for Child Psychoanalysis [Association of Child Psychoanalysis]
1972	Presented "Some Aspects of Family Interaction: A Psychoanalytic Study," Annual Sigmund Freud Lecture, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
1980, Nov. 23	Died, London, England