Susanna Rubinstein

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Susanna Rubinstein (born September 20, 1847 in Chernivtsi , † March 29, 1914 in Würzburg ) was an Austrian psychologist .

Life

Dedication to Susanna Rubinstein in Mauthner's The Great Revolution

Susanna Rubinstein was a daughter of the banker Isak Rubinstein (approx. 1804-1878), the first Jewish member of the Reichsrat from Bukovina and president of the Czernowitz Jewish community (1872-1877). On her mother's side she was orphaned at an early age. Like her siblings, she was greatly encouraged in her education by her father, who initially enabled her to take private lessons. In her hometown, however, she was unable to complete the Matura , as there was no girls' high school in Czernowitz when she was young. She is likely to have passed the Matura in front of a commission at a boys' grammar school in Cisleithanien . She then turned to the study of psychology and German literature and for this purpose first moved to Prague University at Easter 1870 . There she met Fritz Mauthner , whose love she did not return. Mauthner's first work, The Great Revolution , a cycle of sonnets, is dedicated to her. Three years later Rubinstein moved to Leipzig and finally to Vienna University . In Bern , she obtained her doctorate in 1874 with her dissertation The sensory and sensitive senses . This was the first doctorate awarded to a woman by the University of Bern.

Rubinstein then sat in for a year in Leipzig and then in Heidelberg and Munich . Her main field of work was psychology, about which, often interrupted by illness, she published various articles in specialist journals in addition to scientific publications. She rarely lived in her hometown and held courses there on aesthetic literature. In 1914 she died in Würzburg at the age of 66.

Works (selection)

  • The sensory and sensitive senses , 1874
  • Psychological-aesthetic essays , Heidelberg 1878; new episode 1884
  • From the inner world. Psychological studies , Leipzig 1888
  • On the nature of movements , Leipzig 1890
  • For a dark ground , Leipzig 1892
  • An individualistic pessimist. Contribution to the appreciation of Philipp Mainländer , Leipzig 1894
  • A triad of will metaphysicians. Popular philosophical essays , Leipzig 1896
  • Psychological-aesthetic fragments , Leipzig 1903
  • Schiller Problems , Leipzig 1908
  • Lexical Schiller Commentary , Berlin 1913

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Rubinstein, Isaak (Isak) . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
  2. ↑ a b Susanna Rubinstein , in: Digital topography of the multicultural Bukowina
  3. ↑ a b Rubinstein, Susanna , in: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder , Vol. 2, Berlin 1898, pp. 209 f.
personal data
SURNAME Rubinstein, Susanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1914
Place of death Wurzburg