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On May 6, 1856, Sigisimund Freud was born in Freiburg Moravia, which is now known as the Czech Republic, to Jacob and Amalia Freud. (He would change his name to Sigmund at age 22.) The family lived in Freiburg for 3 years but because of an economical crisis that ruined his father’s business, they were forced to move to Vienna in 1859. In 1865, he was accepted to secondary school one year early. At age 17, he received a summa cum lade at his high school graduation. He was already able to read in many different languages. Although his original dream was to become a lawyer, he decided to go to medical school based on the influence of Ludwig Boerne's writings and Goethe’s scientific investigations. He conducted his first personal research in Trieste at age 19 and he then joined the laboratory of John Brucke. In 1877, he published his first official research results. This was based on the anatomy of the central nervous system of a larva. In 187