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Carl Jung

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  • Date of Birth

    Date of Birth

    Born in Kesswill, Switzerland, son of a Reformed Protestant pastor, Johann Paul Jung, and Emilie Preiswerk.
  • Basel University

    Basel University

    Jung enters Basel University to study science and medicine.
  • Burgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich

    Burgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich

    Jung graduates with a M.D. from the University of Basel and is appointed assistant at the Burgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, under Professor Eugen Bleuler.
  • University of Zurich

    University of Zurich

    Jung gets his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich with a doctoral dissertation On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena.
  • Emma Rauschenberg

    Emma Rauschenberg

    Jung marries Emma Rauschenberg. The get five children in the course of time.
  • Correspondence with Sigmund Freud

    Correspondence with Sigmund Freud

    Jung initiates letter correspondance with Sigmund Freud and visits him next year in Vienna.
  • First meeting with Freud

    First meeting with Freud

    Jung's first meeting with Freud. He writes the work The Psychology of Dementia Praecox.
  • Period: to

    Federal Polytechnical University in Zurich

    Jung works as a professor of psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in Zurich.
  • President (until 1939) of International Society for Medical Psychotherapy

    President (until 1939) of International Society for Medical Psychotherapy

    Jung publishes Wirklichkeit der Seele. He also begins series of seminars on Nietzsche's Zarathustra. President (until 1939) of International Society for Medical Psychotherapy.
  • C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich

    C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich

    Founding of C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich
  • Jung's death

    Jung's death

    Jung dies at his home in Kusnacht, near Zurich, at the age of 85, after a short illness.