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Fonds Olga Rorschach
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Fonds Olga Rorschach
Rorschach-Stempelin, Olga (1878-1961) [Bestandsbildner]
18uu-1961. - 2 boxes (21 cm)
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Biographische Notiz: Olga Rorschach, née Ol’ga Vil’gemovna Štempelin, was born on 27th May / 8th June 1878 in Buinsk, a small town near Kazan, as the eldest child of Wilhelm Karlow Štempelin, pharmacist, and Elisaweta Matwjewa. Her father’s family originated in the Baltic States but had settled generations earlier in Russia. Her father belonged to the Lutheran church whereas his wife was an orthodox Russian. Together with her brother one year and sister eight years younger, Olga passed her childhood and youth first in Buinsk and later in Kazan. Having received her first education from her mother at home she entered the Rodionow Institute in Kazan, which had been founded by a grand duchess for daughters of noblemen, officers and state employees with special merits. After qualifying she lived with her brother in Kazan where he went to school while she earned a living for both by giving private lessons. From 1901 to 1902 she attended medical lectures at the Friedrich Humboldt University in Berlin as a guest student, and in autumn 1902 matriculated as medical student at the University of Zurich, where, in 1906, she became acquainted with her fellow student Hermann Rorschach. In 1908, after concluding her studies with her dissertation “Zur Differentialdiagnose der perniziösen Anämie”, she travelled to Kazan to prepare for the Russian state examination in medicine. In 1910 she returned to Switzerland to marry Hermann Rorschach. The couple lived in a flat in the psychiatric hospital in Münsterlingen where in summer 1909 H.R. had been appointed assistant and where in 1911 Olga was engaged also as assistant. At the end of 1913 she together with her husband left Switzerland with the intention of settling in Russia. Her husband found employment in the private sanatorium Krjukovo near Moscow but, unsatisfied with the job, returned to Switzerland six months later to accept a position at the Psychiatric Hospital Waldau in Bern. It was intended that Olga would follow him a couple of months later but, due to the outbreak of World War I, her return to Switzerland was delayed until 1915. In autumn 1915 the couple moved to Herisau where H.R. was engaged as associate director at the psychiatric hospital, but where Olga was not permitted to undertake any medical activities. In 1917 she gave birth to daughter Elisabeth (Lisa) and two years later to son Wadim. After the death of her husband in 1922 she had to support the family. For two years she held the post of her deceased husband, but then she had to leave because the administration came to the view that the post should be filled by a male with a Swiss medical diploma. It proved, however, to be difficult for her to find another job in a clinic and in 1924 she moved with her children to Teufen in Canton Appenzell. With a payment from her husband’s life insurance she was able to buy a small house where she provided accommodation and outpatient aftercare for a few discharged psychiatric patients. Furthermore she took the opportunities offered of deputising in Ludwig Binswanger’s private sanatorium Bellevue in Kreuzlingen, and in the Psychiatric Hospital Cery in Lausanne. Thanks to Binswanger she was able to accompany wealthy patients abroad as their medical attendant. In 1953 she left her home in Teufen to live with her daughter Elisabeth in Zurich, where she died in 1961.Rorschach-Stempelin, Olga (1878-1961) [Erwähnte Person]
https://swisscollections.ch/Record/991170539050805501 (Katalogeintrag in swisscollections)
Akzession: Herkunft: Bequeathed to the Rorschach-Archives by Wadim Rorschach. Datum: 2010. Ordnungszustand: 1) Biographical material 2) Correspondence 3) Manuscripts
CH-002121-2-991170539050805501
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Letters from Wadim Rorschach to his mother Olga Rorschach
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 1
Letters from Wadim Rorschach to his mother Olga Rorschach
1934-195u. – 14 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Wolfgang Schwarz 1959-1960
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 2
Correspondence with Wolfgang Schwarz 1959-1960
1959-1960. – 12 letters. - Englisch Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Walter Morgenthaler 1947-1958
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 3
Correspondence with Walter Morgenthaler 1947-1958
1947-1958. – 8 letters, 1 postcard, 1 copie of a letter from Walter Morgenthaler to Hans Christoffel . - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Handwritten letters from G. A. Roemer to Olga Rorschach 1921-1922
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 4
Handwritten letters from G. A. Roemer to Olga Rorschach 1921-1922
1921-1922. – 4 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Eugen Bleuler and his wife 1923-1932
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 5
Correspondence with Eugen Bleuler and his wife 1923-1932
1923-1932. – 8 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Letters from Oskar Pfister to Olga Rorschach
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 6
Letters from Oskar Pfister to Olga Rorschach
1924-1932. – 2 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Letters from Henri F. Ellenberger to Olga Rorschach 1953-1954
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 7
Letters from Henri F. Ellenberger to Olga Rorschach 1953-1954
1953-1954. – 2 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Adolf Friedemann 1955-1960
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 8
Correspondence with Adolf Friedemann 1955-1960
1955-1960. – 3 letters, 1 copy of a letter from Friedemann to H.F. Ellenberger, 1 copy of a letter from Friedemann to Prof. H. Strahm . - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Hans Christoffel 1947
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 9
Correspondence with Hans Christoffel 1947
1947. – 2 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with various persons
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 10
Correspondence with various persons
1916-1960. – 32 letters, 4 postcards, 2 enclosures. - Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Hans and Greti Burri-Brauchli
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 11
Correspondence with Hans and Greti Burri-Brauchli
1922-19uu. – 6 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Max Müller
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 12
Correspondence with Max Müller
1920-1929. – 4 letters. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Correspondence with Elisabeth Rorschach
Signatur: Rorsch OR 2 : 13
Correspondence with Elisabeth Rorschach
1937-1944. – 14 letters, 5 postcards. - Deutsch ; Handschrift, Briefsammlung
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Manuscripts
Signatur: Rorsch OR 3
Manuscripts
193u-19uu. – 9 manuscripts, various papers. - Deutsch ; Handschrift