Mira Koffka
Mira Koffka (born August 11, 1886 in Berlin as Miriam Maxa Klein; † 1977/78, further details of her life unknown) was a German translator .
Life
In 1909 Mira Klein married the psychologist and co-founder of Gestalt psychology Kurt Koffka , whose name she kept after the divorce in 1923. Mira Klein Koffka was the granddaughter of the women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm , daughter of the sculptor Max Klein and his wife Eva, nee. Dohm. Her parents' house was located directly on Kreuzberg (Lichterfelder Strasse 28, today Methfesselstrasse 17). She was the stepdaughter of the publisher Georg Bondi and a great admirer of Stefan George , whom she met in her stepfather's house.
She received her doctorate in 1910 from the University of Munich with a paper on Jean Paul .
In 1934 she joined her stepfather's Bondi publishing house in Berlin.
Selected Works
- Mira (Klein) Koffka: Jean Paul's pictorial language in the Hesperus, Herrosé & Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1910
- as a translator
- Honoré de Balzac : Eugenie Grandet, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1924; numerous New edition, e.g. B. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1952; Diogenes, Zurich 1977, again in 2009
- Erwin Schrödinger : Nature and the Greeks. Cosmos and physics. Rowohlt's German Encyclopedia, Hamburg 1956
- William Makepeace Thackeray : Vanity Fair. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957, explanatory essay: Fritz Wölcken
- Charles Scott Sherrington : Body and Mind. Schünemann, Bremen 1964
- Wolfgang Köhler : Values and facts. Springer, Berlin 1968 (translation together with Ottilie C. Selbach)
Web links
- Literature by and about Mira Koffka in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koffka, Mira |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1977 or 1978 |