Lili Roubiczek-Peller

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Lili Esther Roubiczek-Peller (born February 28, 1898 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died August 30, 1966 in Monroe , New Jersey ) was an American educator and psychoanalyst of Austrian origin. She was a pioneer of Montessori education in Austria and developed an independent Viennese Montessori model.

Life

Lili Roubiczek was the daughter of the wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer Ludwig Roubiczek. After graduating from a German-speaking grammar school in Prague, she first studied biology in 1917, then pedagogy and went to Vienna in 1920 , where she studied psychology with Karl and Charlotte Bühler . In 1921 she completed a training course with Maria Montessori in London , after which she and the Australian Lawrence A. Benjamin decided to set up a children's home in Vienna.

In 1922, the first children's house was built on Troststrasse in Vienna- Favoriten, based on the principles of Montessori pedagogy. In 1925 she began to hold Montessori training courses. Through contacts with the Viennese city government, especially with city councilor Julius Tandler , she became a consultant for kindergarten issues at the municipality of Vienna. In 1927 she founded the children's house on Rudolfsplatz.

From the late 1920s onwards, Roubiczek became more and more interested in psychoanalysis and how it could be used in education. She envisioned a synthesis between Montessori pedagogy and psychoanalysis. After a meeting she brokered between Anna Freud and Maria Montessori, however, there was no rapprochement; on the contrary, Montessori forbade Roubiczek from any merging of her theory with psychoanalysis, which led to an increasing alienation and increased turn to psychoanalysis from Roubiczek. In 1931 she trained as a psychoanalyst with Siegfried Bernfeld and Hermann Nunberg and became an extraordinary member of the Psychoanalytical Association .

In 1933 Lili Roubiczek married the socialist social medicine specialist Sigismund Peller , who was an employee of Julius Tandler. Induced by the events of February 1934 , which resulted in the persecution of the Austrian Social Democrats, the couple emigrated to Palestine . There Lili Roubiczek set up an elementary school in Jerusalem that followed the principles she had found in Vienna, and was in contact with the Psychoanalytic Institute in Jerusalem.

In 1937, Sigismund Peller was appointed to Johns Hopkins University , which caused the couple to move to Baltimore in the USA. In 1940 they settled in New York City . During the war, she worked as an educational advisor on looking after small children outside the home and after some time became self-employed as a psychoanalyst. Together with Paul Federn , who emigrated from Austria , she founded a study group for non-medical professionals among psychoanalysts. She lectured and lectured on child development at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Philadelphia , of which she later became an honorary member, and in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx . In old age she increasingly occupied herself with the child's language development, a topic that she had already dealt with in Vienna.

In 1970 the Roubiczekgasse in Vienna-Favoriten was named after her.

Fonts

  • On Development and Education of Young Children . Selected papers. Philosophical Library: New York, 1978

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Jewish supporters of Maria Montessori's pedagogy. In: The child. Half year publication of Montessori pedagogy 2001 / H. 29/30, pp. 88-131
  • Manfred Berger: Lili Esther Peller-Roubiczek - Your life and work for Montessori pedagogy. In: The child. Half-yearly publication of Montessori pedagogy 1996 / H. 20th
  • Franz Hammerer: Maria Montessori's educational concept. Start of implementation in Austria . Youth & People: Vienna, 1997
  • Brigitte Eichelberger: Searching for clues. On the traces of Lili Ester Roubiczek-Peller's life and the Viennese Montessori movement ; in: The child is discovered. Education experiments in Vienna in the interwar period. Picus: Vienna, 2001
  • Charlotte Zwiauer: Roubiczek-Peller, Lili. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 631–633.

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personal data
SURNAME Roubiczek-Peller, Lili
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roubiczek-Peller, Lilli Esther (full name); Peller, Lili; Roubiczek, Lili
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Montessori teacher and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1966
Place of death Monroe (New Jersey)