Dr. Marmor’s statement is true from a practical point of view since Alexander was the first
functioning head or chair of psychoanalysis in history. However, the historical truth is that the first psychoanalyst who was appointed to be a professor of psychoanalysis was Sándor Ferenczi
+(2). He received this title at the University of Budapest in 1919 by the short-lived communist regime. After the change in regime, Ferenczi’s appointment as the newly founded chair was not confirmed, so he lost the appointment before he was be able to begin to function as a university professor of psychoanalysis.