Sybille Bianca Giulietta Eysenck ( ; March 1927 – December 2020) was a

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and the widow of the psychologist

Hans Eysenck Hans Jürgen Eysenck (; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other ...

, with whom she collaborated as psychologists at the

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, as co-authors and researchers.

Life

Sybil Eysenck (née 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 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. Sybil Eysenck died on 5 December 2020 in London, England, at the age of 93. Sybil Eysenck 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. Eysenck was a

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in London in the 1980's. Eysenck 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
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References

1927 births Academic journal editors Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss English psychologists Personality psychologists Women magazine editors {{UK-psychologist-stub