A.A. Brill papers, 1888-1994

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1874, Oct. 12	Born, Kanczuga, Austria
1889	Immigrated to the United States
1901	Ph.B., New York University, New York, N.Y.
1903	M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1903-1907	Assistant physician, New York State Hospital, Central Islip, Long Island, N.Y.
1907-1908	Studied with Pierre Marie in Paris, France, and Eugen Bleuler in Zurich, Switzerland Met Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Austria, and obtained permission to translate his writings into English
1908	Married Kittie Rose Owen (died 1963) Entered private practice in New York, N.Y., the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States
1908-1914	Clinical assistant, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt Clinic, New York, N.Y.
1909	Translated and published Sigmund Freud's Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses. New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co.
1911	Founder and first president, New York Psychoanalytic Society, New York, N.Y.
1912	Published Psychoanalysis, Its Theories and Practical Application. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.
1919	Major, consultant psychiatrist, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army
1921	Published Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
1925-1934	President, New York Psychoanalytic Society, New York, N.Y.
1927	Appointed lecturer, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1943	Delivered the Thomas William Salmon Memorial Lectures, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
1944	Published Freud's Contribution to Psychiatry. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
1946	Published Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
1948, Mar. 2	Died, New York, N.Y.
1949	Posthumous publication of Basic Principles of Psychoanalysis. New York: Doubleday