Sybille Bianca Giulietta Eysenck ( ; Rostal; 16 March 1927 – 5 December 2020) was a British personality psychologist and spouse of psychologist

Hans Eysenck Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( ; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality psychology, personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At t ...

, with whom she collaborated as psychologists at the

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, as co-authors and researchers.

Life

Sybille Bianca Giulietta Rostal was born on 16 March 1927 as the only child of violinist

Max Rostal Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship. Biography Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studyin ...

and cellist Giesella "Sela" Trau (1898–1991) in

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. In 1934, she went with her parents into exile to

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. In 1946, she became a

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British subject. She received a BSc in psychology in 1952, and a PhD in psychology in 1955, both from the University of London. After a long career (1953–1992) as a psychologist and senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, England, she retired in 1992. She was the editor-in-chief of the

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journal ''

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'' and the author of the ''Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory''WorldCat
/ref> and its accompanying manuals. Sybil Eysenck died on 5 December 2020 in London, England, at the age of 93.

References

1927 births 2020 deaths British academic journal editors Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom English psychologists Personality psychologists British women magazine editors 20th-century British psychologists 21st-century British psychologists Health professionals from Vienna Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom {{UK-psychologist-stub