Raissa Adler
Raissa Adler , née Epstein (born November 9, 1872 in Moscow , † April 21, 1962 in New York City ) was an Austrian women's rights activist of Russian origin.
Life
Raissa Timofejewna Epstein was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family. She received school lessons from private tutors. Since a study for women in the 19th century in Russia was not possible, she went in 1895 to Zurich , where she attended the local university studied three semesters biology.
At the end of 1896 she moved to Vienna and joined the women's movement there. She met Alfred Adler and married him in Smolensk in 1897 . She gave birth to four children: Valentina in 1898, Alexandra in 1901, Kurt in 1905 and Cornelia in 1909. The liberally raised, politically radical and free-spirited Raissa had contact with revolutionary Russian emigrants. She became friends with Leon Trotsky through the Russian émigré Aline Furtmüller and worked with him in 1929.
Adler got involved under the Vienna City Councilor for Health Julius Tandler together with Margarete Hilferding in the field of women's issues, was a co-founder of International Workers Aid in Austria, in the Red Aid Committee and joined the Communist Party of Austria . In the early 1930s she was on the board of the Association for Individual Psychology . After the civil war in February 1934 she was arrested for two days because of her political involvement. This incident prompted Alfred Adler to personally fetch her from Vienna to the USA in 1935, where the Adler couple emigrated. After World War II , Adler was for a time chairman of the executive committee of the Individual Psychology Association in New York. In 1954 she was elected Honorary President of the Board of Directors.
literature
- Karl Fallend: Raissa Adler. 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. 12-13 ( online ).
Web links
- Raissa Adler in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adler, Raissa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckstein, Raissa Timofejewna; Epstein, Raissa Timofeyevna; Эпштейн, Раиса Тимофеевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian women's rights activist of Russian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1962 |
| Place of death | New York City |