Sofie Lazarsfeld
26 May 1881 – 24 September 1976
Sofie Munk was born in Austrian-Silesia (now Opava, Czech Republic). Her father died when she was four years old, and she was raised by her mother in Silesia. In the late 1890s she moved to Vienna, where she met and married Viennese lawyer Robert Lazarsfeld. In the 1920s she met the psychologist Alfred Adler and trained in psychology. In 1924 she began her career as a writer dealing primarily with children, women, marriage, sexual issues, and personal psychology. In 1925 she opened her own practice, specializing in education and marriage counselling, and ran it until the Nazis closed it. In 19
