Erwin Ringel

1921–1994 (age 73)

Biography

Erwin Ringel (27 April 1921 – 28 July 1994) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who dedicated his life to suicide prevention and who, in 1960, defined the presuicidal syndrome.

In 1948 he founded the world's first suicide prevention center in Vienna. In 1960 he founded the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

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