deaths
February 11, 1958
Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (born 1879)
Ernest Jones
Alfred Ernest Jones was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world. As President of both the International Psychoanalytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised a formative influence in the establishment of their organisations, institutions and publications.
February 11
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 323 days remain until the end of the year.