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'''Mira Koffka''' (1886-1976) was a German translator.


== Life ==
Koffka was born in Berlin as Miriam Maxa Klein on 11 August 1886. She was the granddaughter of women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her mother was Hedwig's daughter Eva, and her father the sculptor Max Klein.


Whilst at university in Munich, Mira acted as a test subject in experimental psychology research carried out by [[Kurt Koffka]]. In 1909 she married
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She divorced him before he married Elisabeth Ahlgrimm in 1923, then remarried him in 1926 and re-divorced him in 1928. She kept the surname Koffka from her first marriage onwards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/|title=Ancestry® {{!}} Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records|website=www.ancestry.co.uk|access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref>
'''Robert Scott''' (1822-2 Feb 1904.<ref name="lg">{{cite journal|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27657/page/1718/data.pdf|title=Re Robert Scott, Deceased| journal=The London Gazette|accessdate=20 March 2016|issue=27657|page=1718|date=15 March 1904}}</ref>)
was a Manchester businessman who was one of the founders of the [[Tootal Broadhurst Lee]] cotton company.<ref name="Cox">{{cite journal|url=http://aah.dev.b60apps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Bowdon-Sheaf-1-1983-to-55-2015-with-Contents.pdf|title=Denzell Owners & Occupiers| journal=Bowdon Sheaf|publisher=Bowdon History Society|accessdate=20 March 2016|volume=20|pages=3-4|author=Marjorie Cox|date=October 1986}}</ref>


In 1910 Koffka received her doctorate from the University of Munich in 1910 with a thesis on the German writer [[Jean Paul|Jean Paul Friedrich Richter]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Koffka:|first=Mira|title=Jean Pauls Bildersprache im Hesperus,|publisher=Herrosé & Ziemsen,|year=1910|isbn=|location=Wittenberg|pages=}}</ref> In the same year she moved to her husband to Frankfurt where had a job at the Institute for Psychology. She, her husband, and his colleague Wolfgang Kohler, were the three experimental subjects used by Wertheimer in his seminal ''Gestalt'' experiments.
Scott was a notable early example of a successful manager in the textile industry, achieving significant wealth within the largest company of the time whilst being neither self-made nor from a textile family.
<ref name="Bamford">{{cite book|title=Mansions and Men of Dunham Massey|publisher=Frank Bamford|last=Bamford|first=Frank|date=1991|location=Altrincham|isbn=0 9517225 0 6}}</ref>
Born the son of a farmer at Abbey Holm in Cumbria, by the time of his 1845 marriage to Maria in [[Cheetham Hill]], north Manchester, he was described as a salesman.
<ref name="Cox"/>
He became a business partner of Henry Tootal Broadhurst, [[Henry Lee (MP)|Henry Lee]] and [[Joseph Cocksey Lee|Joseph Lee]] who together subsequently formed the company Tootal Broadhurst Lee, a vertically integrated firm that was unusual for its time in combining weaving and spinning
<ref name="dnb">{{Cite ODNB|id=46780|title=Broadhurst, Sir Edward Tootal}}</ref>
and was to become by the 1880s the largest cotton manufacturer in Lancashire.
<ref name="Rose">{{ cite book|title=The Lancashire Cotton Industry|isbn= 187123638X|date= 1996}}</ref>
He became 'cashier', or finance director, of Tootal Broadhurst Lee in 1854
<ref name="Bamford">{{cite book|title=Mansions and Men of Dunham Massey|publisher=Frank Bamford|last=Bamford|first=Frank|date=1991|location=Altrincham|isbn=0 9517225 0 6}}</ref>
and was deputy chairman of the Equitable Fire and Accident Office insurance company
<ref name="equitable">{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename= The Equitable Fire and Accident Office, limited|day_of_week= |date= 14 March 1891 |page_number=3 |issue= 33272|column=3 }}</ref>;
by the 1881 census he was described a spinning manufacturer.<ref name="Bamford"/>


[[File:Altrincham, Denzell House - geograph.org.uk - 1313215.jpg|thumb|alt=The exterior of Denzell House|[[Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Greater_Manchester#Trafford|Denzell Hall]], Scott's mansion in [[Bowdon]]]].
In 1874 Scott bought ten acres of land in [[Bowdon]], south Manchester, from the [[George_Grey,_7th_Earl_of_Stamford|Earl of Stamford]] at a cost of £7075<ref name="Bamford"/>
and
built a large villa, Denzell
<ref name="trenbath">{{cite journal|url=http://aah.dev.b60apps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Bowdon-Sheaf-1-1983-to-55-2015-with-Contents.pdf|title=Denzell| journal=Bowdon Sheaf|publisher=Bowdon History Society|accessdate=20 March 2016|volume=7|pages=7-8|issn=0265-816X|author=Valerie Trenbath|date= April 1986}}</ref>,
to the designs of the architects Clegg and Knowles.<ref name="listing"/>
The house cost £18,000<ref name="Cox"/> to build and a reported £30,000 in all.
<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |last= A. H. N.|date=April 3, 1959|title= "Mansion that became a home of healing"|newspaper= Altrincham, Hale and Bowdon Guardian|pages=10}}</ref>
Scott was recorded in the 1881 census as living at Denzell with his wife and a staff of nine.<ref name="Cox"/>.
The building is now known as [[Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Greater_Manchester#Trafford|Denzell Hall]] and is Grade II* listed as a notable example of a specifically commissioned late nineteenth century house for a wealthy patron with a high degree of craftsmanship and quality of materials.<ref name="listing"/>
The listing cites the design as inventive and eclectic and by an noted Manchester architects' practice;
<ref name="listing">{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-212798-denzell-house-#.VvYtWvmLSM8|title=English Heritage listing criteria for Denzell Hall}}</ref>
the architectural critic Pevsner described it as a luscious but 'very bad' mixture of debased Jacobean, Gothic and Italianate.
<ref name="pevsner">{{cite book|title=Cheshire|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Kl99LwM8BYgC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=pevsner+denzell}}</ref>
Scott's son Henry predeceased him and at his death in 1904 the house was sold to the Lamb family.
<ref name="guardian"/>


In 1934 Koffka she joined the publishing house of her stepfather Bondi in Berlin.
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==References==

{{reflist}}
== Selected works ==

* Mira (Klein) Koffka: Jean Pauls Bildersprache im Hesperus, Herrosé & Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1910

; As translator

* [[Honoré de Balzac]]: Eugenie Grandet, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1924; reissued B. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1952; Diogenes, Zürich 1977 and 2009
* [[Erwin Schrödinger]]: ''Nature and the Greeks. Cosmos and physics..'' Rowohlts Deutsche Enzyklopädie, Hamburg 1956
* [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]: ''Vanity Fair.'' Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957
* [[Charles Scott Sherrington]]: ''Body and Mind.''Schünemann, Bremen 1964
* [[Wolfgang Köhler (Psychologe)|Wolfgang Köhler]]: ''Values ​​and Facts.'' Springer, Berlin 1968 (Übers. zus. mit Ottilie C. Selbach)

== Weblinks ==

* {{DNB-Portal|104674474}}

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== References ==
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Revision as of 19:54, 27 March 2020

Mira Koffka (1886-1976) was a German translator.

Life

Koffka was born in Berlin as Miriam Maxa Klein on 11 August 1886. She was the granddaughter of women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her mother was Hedwig's daughter Eva, and her father the sculptor Max Klein.

Whilst at university in Munich, Mira acted as a test subject in experimental psychology research carried out by Kurt Koffka. In 1909 she married

She divorced him before he married Elisabeth Ahlgrimm in 1923, then remarried him in 1926 and re-divorced him in 1928. She kept the surname Koffka from her first marriage onwards.[1]

In 1910 Koffka received her doctorate from the University of Munich in 1910 with a thesis on the German writer Jean Paul Friedrich Richter.[2] In the same year she moved to her husband to Frankfurt where had a job at the Institute for Psychology. She, her husband, and his colleague Wolfgang Kohler, were the three experimental subjects used by Wertheimer in his seminal Gestalt experiments.


In 1934 Koffka she joined the publishing house of her stepfather Bondi in Berlin.

Selected works

  • Mira (Klein) Koffka: Jean Pauls Bildersprache im Hesperus, Herrosé & Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1910
As translator

References

  1. ^ "Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. ^ Koffka:, Mira (1910). Jean Pauls Bildersprache im Hesperus,. Wittenberg: Herrosé & Ziemsen,.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

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