Viktor Frankl Death Cause and Date

Viktor Frankl's Death

Born (Birthday) March 26, 1905

Death Date September 2, 1997

Age of Death 92 years

Cause of Death Heart Failure

Profession Psychiatrist

The psychiatrist Viktor Frankl died at the age of 92. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered for his development of a type of existential psychotherapy known as logotherapy, this prominent psychiatrist, neurologist, and Holocaust survivor also penned a bestselling, memoir-based psychological work titled Man’s Search for Meaning.

During the years of World War II and the Holocaust, he spent time at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, where his mother perished in a gas chamber. His wife, Tilly Grosser, later died at the Bergen-Belsen camp.

He was 92 and was considered to be one of the last of the great Viennese psychiatrists. He died of heart failure according to the International Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.