Gabriele Rabel

Gabriele Rabel in Cambridge (1938)

Gabriele Rabel (born August 29,  1880 in Vöslau , † August 27, 1963 in Cambridge ) was an Austrian physicist , philosopher and botanist .

Life

Rabel was born as the eldest of three children of a Viennese lawyer. She first studied botany at the University of Vienna with Richard Wettstein , then theoretical physics in Leipzig and Berlin , with Albert Einstein and Max Planck , among others . From 1915 to 1923 she worked for Richard Willstätter  and Max Planck in Berlin. In 1919 she received her doctorate with the dissertation The intensity of certain lines of the H spectrum as a function of gas pressure at the University of Greifswald . In 1923 Rabel was diagnosed with depression , after which she spent two years in a sanatorium and began to study philosophy.

In 1927 she published a book about Goethe and Kant . From 1932 Rabel began to publish regularly in the field of science, her areas ranged from paleontology and plate tectonics to psychotherapy and literary studies.

In May 1940 she emigrated to England because of the political and economic situation in Austria during the Second World War . She later lived in the United States for four years . In the 1930s and 1940s she wrote essays on evolution , genetics and on Emperor Karl I. She also worked as a teacher and journalist. Gabriele Rabel died in 1963 in Cambridge, where she lived for many years . Her estate is in Churchill College at the University of Cambridge .

Works (selection)

• Goethe and Kant (1927)

literature

• Rabel, Gabriele Josefa. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 2636 ( PDF; 9 MB ).