Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Helena von |
Surname: | Reybekiel |
Name of birth: | Schapiro |
Profession: | Psychologist, lecturer |
Birthday: | 11/25/1879 |
Place of birth: | Lublin |
Date of death: | 1975 |
Place of death: | Birmingham, UK |
Married since: | 1900 |
Married to: | Adolf (Alf) v. Reybekiel |
Profession husband: | Philosopher |
Children: | 2 (Waclaw Antoni, born 1902; Wilfried August, born 1912) |
Education: | High school for girls in Lublin; 1900–04 university studies (psychology) in Zurich; 1904 doctorate |
Career: | Research in psychology at the University of Padua, Italy; 1919 university lecturer qualification (*Habilitation*), Hamburg University; tutor in Polish at the Hamburg Institute of Slavic Studies; 1933 dismissed, emigrates to Britain; 1934–35 salary as visiting lecturer in Polish at the Birmingham & Midland Institute funded by donations from the Birmingham branch of the British Federation of University Women (BFUW) and Crosby Hall bazaars; 1934–64 lecturer in Slavic studies at the University of Birmingham |
Memberships: | German Federation of University Women (DAB) |
Biographical literature: | *Displaced German Scholars: A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany During the 1930s*, with a new introduction by Nathan Kravetz (1936, reprinted San Bernardino, CA: Borgo 1993), 85 |
Major works: | *Die introspektive Methode der modernen Psychologie* (diss.; Kirchhain: Zahn & Baendel, 1906) |