Sybil Wolfram (born Sybille Misch; 1 July 1931 – 26 July 1993) was an English philosopher and writer, of Austrian Jewish origin. She studied at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

and was a Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at

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from 1964 to 1993.

Work

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 Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair o ...

'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.

Personal life

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 The Reichstag fire (, ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, ...

in 1933, she emigrated from Berlin, Germany to England with her parents.Smith, M. E.. (1993). Obituary. Anthropology Today, 9(6), 22-22. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2783224Kate Friedländer née Frankl (1902-1949)
Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon. She was the mother of computer scientist

Stephen Wolfram Stephen Wolfram ( ; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical So ...

and British technologist and businessman

Conrad Wolfram Conrad Wolfram (born 10 June 1970) is a British Technology, technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and mathematics education reform. In June 2020, Wolfram released his first book, ''The Math(s) Fix: An Educati ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfram, Sybil 1931 births 1993 deaths Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford German women novelists Jewish philosophers Jewish women writers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom 20th-century English philosophers 20th-century German women Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford

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