Jolande jacobi biography for kids

Swiss psychologist (1890–1973)

Jolande Jacobi (25 March 1890 – 1 April 1973) was a Swiss psychologist, best remembered for her work with Carl Jung, and for her writings on Jungian psychology.

Life and career

Born in Budapest, Hungary (then under Austria-Hungary) as Jolande Szekacs, she became known as Jolande Jacobi after her marriage at the age of nineteen to Andor Jacobi.^[1] She spent part of her life in Budapest (until 1919), part in Vienna (until 1938) and part in Zurich.

Her parents were Jewish, but Jacobi converted first to the Reformed faith (in 1911), later in life to Roman Catholicism (in 1934).^[2] Jacobi met Jung in 1927, and later was influential in the establishment of the C.G.

Jung Institute for Analytical Psychology in Zurich in 1948, where she was nicknamed 'The Locomotive' for her extraversion and administrative drive.^[3] Her students at the C.G. Jung Institute included Wallace Clift.^[4] She died