Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He graduated in Psychology and Sociology from the universities of Frankfurt and Munich, and obtained his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1922. He began practicing psychoanalysis at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and was also associated with the Frankfurt Research Institute, where he came into contact with Herbert Marcuse and Thomas Adorno. In 1933, with the rise to power of the Nazi Party, Fromm fled Germany and took refuge in the United States, later becoming an American citizen. He taught at several universities, including Columbia, Yale, and New York University. The devastation of the two world wars deeply affected him, and during the Cold War he strongly opposed the arms race, helping to found the [missing information - likely a specific organization or organization] in 1957. National Committee for a Nuclear Policy of Sane.
He died in Switzerland in 1980, a few days before his eightieth birthday.