Sybil Wolfram (born Sybille Misch; 1 July 1931 in Berlin–26 July 1993)[1] was an English philosopher and writer, of German Jewish origin. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at University of Oxford from 1964 to 1993.
Sybil Wolfram | |
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Born | Sybille Misch 1 July 1931 Berlin |
Died | 26 July 1993 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Philosopher |
Spouse | Hugo Wolfram |
Children | Stephen Wolfram, Conrad Wolfram |
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She published two books, Philosophical Logic: An Introduction (1989)[2] and In-laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England (1987).[3][4] She was the translator of Claude Lévi-Strauss'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.[5][6]
She was the mother of computer scientist Stephen Wolfram and the daughter of criminologist and psychoanalyst Kate Friedlander (1902–1949), an expert on the subject of juvenile delinquency,[7] and the physician Walter Misch (1889–1943) who, together, wrote Die vegetative Genese der neurotischen Angst und ihre medikamentöse Beseitigung.[8] After the Reichstag fire in 1933, she emigrated from Berlin, Germany to England with her parents.[9][10][11]