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Date of Birth
Born in Kesswill, Switzerland, son of a Reformed Protestant pastor, Johann Paul Jung, and Emilie Preiswerk. -
Basel University
Jung enters Basel University to study science and medicine. -
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
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
Jung marries Emma Rauschenberg. The get five children in the course of time. -
Correspondence with Sigmund Freud
Jung initiates letter correspondance with Sigmund Freud and visits him next year in Vienna. -
First meeting with Freud
Jung's first meeting with Freud. He writes the work The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. -
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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
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
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Jung's death
Jung dies at his home in Kusnacht, near Zurich, at the age of 85, after a short illness.
