Sigmund Freud early years

Sigmund Freud was born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, May 6th 1856. His father was a wool merchant and had two children from an earlier marriage. Early on Freud showed signs of high intelligence and a ferocious work ethic. As a result, his parents favored him over his other siblings. Despite being poor, they sacrificed everything to give him a proper education. He attended a prominant highschool where he was an outstanding student and graduated with honors in 1873. Despite planning to study law, Freud joined the medical school at the University of Vienna. He was placed in charge of finding a male eels sex organs. After dissecting more than 400 male eels he was unable to find any testes. Discouraged from his lack of success he changed his course of study. In 1881 he received his MD.