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(1972). The International Psycho-Analytical Library, 89:1-6

Introduction to Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé: Letters

Ernst Pfeiffer

Lou Andreas-Salomé was born in St. Petersburg on 12 February 1861, the sixth and last child and only daughter of a Russian general of Huguenot and Baltic-German origin. On her mother's side she had North German and, further back, Danish blood. ‘German was definitely the first language’ in Louise von Salomé's parental home, as she herself stated, with French coming second, and then Russian, ‘which was at that time mainly confined to the common people’. When she was nineteen, prepared by her tutor, Hendrik Gillot, she went to Zurich University to study philosophy and the history of religion. With this she made her entry into the intellectual world of Western Europe.

After a year's study, which was terminated owing to an illness, and after important events, Lou A.-S. lived for twenty year—from 1883 to 1903—in Berlin, and from then until her death on 5 February 1937—i.e., for nearly half her life—in G&#x

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