12 Facts About Jacob Moreno

Jacob Levy Moreno was born in Bucharest in the Kingdom of Romania.

Jacob Moreno's father was Moreno Nissim Levy, a Sephardi Jewish merchant born in 1856 in Plevna in the Ottoman Empire .

Jacob Moreno's mother, Paulina Iancu or Wolf, was a Sephardi Jew, born in 1873, and originated from Calarasi, Romania.

Jacob Moreno studied medicine, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Vienna, becoming a Doctor of Medicine in 1917.

Jacob Moreno had just finished an analysis of a telepathic dream.

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Jacob Moreno worked at the Plymouth Institute, Brooklyn, and at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Jacob Moreno made studies of sociometry at Sing Sing Prison in 1931.

Jacob Moreno later held positions at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research.

In 1932, Jacob Moreno first introduced group psychotherapy to the American Psychiatric Association, and co-authored the monograph Group Method and Group Pschotherapy with Helen Hall Jennings.

Jacob Moreno chose to die by abstaining from all food and water after a long illness.

Jacob Moreno's ashes are buried at Feuerhalle Simmering in Vienna.

Jacob Moreno is widely credited as one of the founders of the discipline of social network analysis, the branch of sociology that deals with the quantitative evaluation of an individual's role in a group or community by analysis of the network of connections between them and others.