Wikipedia (German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franziska_Baumgarten-Tramer
Wikipedia (Polish): https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszka_Baumgarten
Biographical sketch: https://www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de/osteuropa_biografien.html#Baumgarten (Google translate)
The psychologist Franziska (Franciszka) Baumgarten, born in the Russian-Polish city of Lodz, probably had no psychoanalytic training, but was one of the first to introduce Freud's teachings to Poland. She became known above all as a pioneer of psychotechnology. The daughter of a Jewish textile manufacturer, who was enthusiastic about socialist ideas at an early age, began studying literature, philosophy and psychology in Krakow in 1905. In 1906/1907 she studied philosophy, physics and chemistry in Paris (including under Marie Curie), then went to Zurich to do her doctorate there in 1910/1911 on The Epistemology of Maine de Biran. In the same year she took an introduction to experimental psychology with Oswald Külpe in Bonn, moved to Berlin in 1911 and became a student of Hugo Münsterberg, the founder of psychotechnology. From 1911 to 1914 Franziska Baumgarten lived in Lodz again and gave lectures there on psychotechnology, but also on psychoanalysis. In 1912, an extensive essay by her on Sigmund Freud's interpretation of dreams appeared in the journal Neurologia Polska. At the beginning of the First World War she moved to Berlin and spent her most scientifically productive period there from 1914 to 1924. Among other things, she took part in professional aptitude tests and was a member of the commission for examining particularly gifted Berlin community school students until 1924. Her research in the field of applied psychology was particularly influenced by Édouard Claparède, initiator of the Cercle psychanalytique Genevois and the International Psychotechnical Association, of which Franziska Baumgarten was a member of the board from 1922. In 1924 she moved to Switzerland and married the child psychiatrist Moritz Tramer (1882-1963), director of the Rosegg Cantonal Hospital and Nursing Home in Solothurn. She continued her scientific research in Switzerland, was qualified as a professor in 1929 by the Faculty of Philosophy and History in Bern, and gave lectures there on psychotechnology and work psychology topics from 1930 until her retirement in 1954. Her most important publications include the standard work Die Berufsaptitudeprüfungen (1928), which has been translated into several languages, and Die Psychologie der Menschenbehandlung im Betrieb (1930). For example, she developed a saying test to determine work ethic and was particularly interested in the personality trait of sociability, i.e. the ability to learn socially.
Franziska Baumgarten-Tramer suffered from progressive hearing loss and an eye disease since the 1930s. She died impoverished in a hospital in Bern.
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