Dora Hartmann, M.D—1902-1974

Illness struck last winter suddenly, and we have lost a cherished friend and valued colleague. Dora Hartmann was widely known and esteemed in the analytic world for her own professional attainments and personal qualities and as the wife of Heinz Hartmann who died four years ago. Her contributions to psychoanalysis were therefore twofold, direct and indirect, the former through her practice, teaching, and organizational activities, the latter by facilitating so greatly the scientific achievements of Heinz. In numberless ways she applied her extraordinary energy, her devotion, practical competence, and ingenuity to making the surroundings and conditions of life conducive to his productivity.

In becoming an analyst, after a prior career in pediatrics, Dora Hartmann showed her characteristic vigor—intellectual and physical—and her determination in the face of challenge. The Hartmanns had left Vienna in 1938 and arrived in New York City in 1941 after stays in Paris, Geneva, and Lausanne. Along with caring for their two small children throughout all these moves and establishing a new home, Dora completed general and child psychiatric training and studied at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, from which she graduated in 1948. Ten years later she was appointed a training analyst; she served as treasurer of the Institute for three years and on the Students' and Intake Committees for many years. She was active in the Association for Child Psychoanalysis from its beginning, and had been elected its treasurer just before her death.

Working mainly as a clinician, Dora used to enjoy saying that 'Heinz writes enough for both of us'. Nevertheless, four of her psychoanalytic papers have been published. Furthermore, she had published seven pediatric papers in Vienna between 1927 and 1931 under her maiden name of D. Karplus. She married in 1928 and practiced pediatrics for six years before the birth of her first child in 1934. The second son was born in 1937, a year befor