Helena von Reybekiel
Helena von Reybekiel (born as Helena Schapiro November 25, 1879 in Lublin , Russian Empire ; died February 14, 1975 in Birmingham ) was a Polish-British literary scholar.
Life
Helena Schapiro attended the daughter's high school in Lublin and studied psychology in Zurich from 1900, where she received her doctorate in 1904. She married the Polish doctor and philosopher Adolf von Reybekiel, they had two children, the art historian Waclaw Antoni von Reybekiel, born in 1902, and the doctor Wilfred Saffiotti von Reybekiel (1912–1976).
Von Reybekiel worked at the University of Padua and from 1913 at the Psychological Institute of the University of Hamburg , where she qualified as a professor in 1919. She then worked as a lecturer for Polish at the Hamburg Institute for Slavic Studies. After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, she was dismissed from university as a foreigner. Von Reybekiel emigrated to Great Britain with the younger son. From 1935 to 1964 she taught Slavic Studies at the Birmingham and Midland Institute .
Fonts (selection)
- The introspective method of modern psychology . Kirchhain: Zahn & Baendel, 1906
literature
- Reybekiel, Helena von , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 964
Web links
- Literature by and about Reybekiel-Schapiro, Helena in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Dr. Helena von Reybekiel , in University Women's International Networks Database, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Schapiro (oo by Reybekiel) Helena , matriculation University of Zurich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reybekiel / Rejbekiel Adolf Karl (from) , matrikel University of Zurich
- ↑ Reybekiel, Waclaw Antoni of in Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 549f.
- ↑ WA de Reybekill , obituary in the British Medical Journal , August 21, 1976, page 483f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reybekiel, Helena von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schapiro, Helena (maiden name); Reybekiel-Schapiro, Helena von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-British literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lublin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1975 |
| Place of death | Birmingham |