dead death_date death_place birth_place imagesize birth_date spouse image article_title name
dead 24 october 1923 portsmouth , new hampshire , u.s. berdychiv , russian empire 170px 12 october 1867 sarah mandelbaum boris_sidis_cropped_2 . jpg boris sidis
 boris sidis
boris sidis

boris sidis -lrb- ; october 12 , 1867 -- october 24 , 1923 -rrb- was a russian american psychologist , physician , psychiatrist , and philosopher of education .
sidis founded the new york state psychopathic institute and the `` journal of abnormal psychology '' .
he was the father of child prodigy william james sidis .
boris sidis eventually opposed mainstream psychology and sigmund freud , and thereby died ostracized .
he was married to a maternal aunt of clifton fadiman , the noted american intellectual .
