Viktor Emil Frankl

Viktor Emil Frankl (1905–1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, emphasizing the search for meaning as the primary human drive. Prior to World War II, he worked at Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital and Rothschild Hospital, where he saved patients from Nazi euthanasia by falsifying diagnoses. His seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning, written in nine days after liberation from concentration camps, became an international bestseller.