Edward Bernays
Author
1891 – 1995
Who was Edward Bernays?
Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.
He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the "herd instinct" that Trotter had described. Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.
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- Born
- Nov 22, 1891
Vienna - Also known as
- Бернейс, Эдвард
- Parents
- Spouses
- Doris E. Fleischman
(1922 - )
- Doris E. Fleischman
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Austrian Jews
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Lived in
- Vienna
- New York City
- Died
- Mar 9, 1995
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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