Susanna Rubinstein


Susanna or Susanne Rubinstein was an Austrian psychologist.
She was born in Czernowitz. She studied at the University of Prague and at Leipzig, Vienna and Bern. She gained a Ph.D. in 1874 in psychology and German literature: her thesis was "Uber die sensoriellen und sensitiven Sinne".
Her 1878 work "Psychologisch-Asthetische Essays" has been described as "a major contribution to the study of human emotions". It was reprinted in 2012.
She was Jewish.

Selected publications