Fonds Elisabeth Rorschach  Bern UB Medizingeschichte: Rorschach-Archiv ; Fonds Elisabeth Rorschach

Signatur: Rorsch ER

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187u-2006. - 2 boxes (13 cm)

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Biographische Notiz:   Elisabeth Rorschach, the daughter of Hermann and Olga Rorschach, was born on 18th June 1917 in Herisau (Canton Appenzell A.Rh.), where her father had been employed since 1915 as a psychiatrist in the Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic. Her parents called her Lisa, and she used this name herself throughout her life. She grew up bilingually (German and Russian) but, as she relates in her curriculum vitae, after the death of her father in 1922 her ability to speak Russian had more and more diminished. When her father died Lisa was not even five years of age, and her younger brother, Wadim, just three. Her mother, herself a medical doctor, was compelled to provide for the family, and initially she continued the clinical work of her deceased husband. After two years she moved with her two children to Teufen (Canton Appenzell A.Rh.).   After her school years in Teufen and later at the Cantonal School St.Gallen Lisa Rorschach studied the English and Romance languages and literature at the University of Zurich and there in 1947 completed her studies. Afterwards she lived for some time in Scotland before settling in Zurich, where, until her retirement, she taught at the Business College of the Commercial Association. In 1953 she took her aging mother into her flat in the outskirts of Zurich. She died unexpectedly on the 15th August 2006 during a holiday in her beloved Appenzell.

https://swisscollections.ch/Record/991170539049905501 (Katalogeintrag in swisscollections) 

Akzession: Herkunft: Bequeathed to the Rorschach-Archives by Elisabeth Rorschach. Datum: 2006.   Ordnungszustand: 1) Biographical material 2) Correspondence 3) Various documents 

CH-002121-2-991170539049905501, http://kalliope-verbund.info/CH-002121-2-991170539049905501

Modifikation: 02.07.2021

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