Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee

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Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee

Alexandra Tomasi, Princess of Lampedusa (née Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee) (13 November 1894 in Nice - 22 June 1982 in Palermo) was a Baltic-German psychoanalyst.[1] She was the daughter of Italian mezzo-soprano and violinist Alice Barbi (1858-1948) and Baron Boris von Wolf-Stomersee (1850–1917). She was instrumental in the reorganisation of the Italian psychoanalytic society (SPI) after World War II and was the president of the SPI from 1954 to 1959.[2] In 1932 she married Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa the author of The Leopard.

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  1. ^ "Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon" (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  2. ^ "Alessandra Wolff Stomersee Tomasi di Palma, princess of Lampedusa" (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-06.
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