Sybil Wolfram (born Sybille Misch; 1931–1993) was an English philosopher and writer, of German Jewish origin. She was a Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at

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from 1964 to 1993.

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She published two books, ''Philosophical Logic: An Introduction'' (1989) and ''In-laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England'' (1987). She was the translator of

Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (, ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social An ...

's ''La pensée sauvage'' (''The Savage Mind''), but later disavowed the translation when she discovered the publisher had made changes to the translation that neither she nor Lévi-Strauss had authorized. She was the daughter of criminologist and psychoanalyst Kate Friedlander (1902–1949), an expert on the subject of juvenile delinquency, and the physician Walter Misch (1889–1943) who, together, wrote ''Die vegetative Genese der neurotischen Angst und ihre medikamentöse Beseitigung''. After the Reichstag fire in 1933, she emigrated from Berlin, Germany to England with her parents and Jewish psychoanalyst, Paula Heimann (1899–1982).Smith, M. E.. (1993). Obituary. Anthropology Today, 9(6), 22-22. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2783224Kate Friedländer née Frankl (1902-1949)
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