Freud : A Very Short Introduction

Sigmund Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in the Moravian town of
Freiberg, now Pribor in the Czech Republic. His mother, Amalie, was the
third wife of Jacob Freud, a Jewish wool merchant, some twenty years
younger than her husband. In 1859, when Sigmund Freud was three
years old, the family moved to Vienna. For the next 79 years Freud
continued to live and work in this city, for which he recurrently
professed distaste, but which he was extremely reluctant to leave. In
1938, he was compelled to take refuge from the Nazis, and spent the last
year of his life in England, dying on 23 September 1939, shortly after the
beginning of the Second World War.