Sofie Lazarsfeld

Sofie Munk was born in Austrian-Silesia (now Opava, Czech Republic). Her father died when she was four years old, and she was raised by her mother in Silesia. In the late 1890s she moved to Vienna, where she met and married Viennese lawyer Robert Lazarsfeld. In the 1920s she met the psychologist Alfred Adler and trained in psychology. In 1924 she began her career as a writer dealing primarily with children, women, marriage, sexual issues, and personal psychology. In 1925 …