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RUDOLPH LOEWENSTEIN DIED ON APRIL 14, 1976. HE WAS A MEMber of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child for 30 years, a close friend and collaborator of its founders, and an esteemed teacher of psychoanalysts for half a century.
Rudolph Loewenstein was born in Lodz, in Russian Poland, in 1898, the youngest of eight children. There was discord in the home because of religion and probably other matters; his father was orthodox, while his mother came from an assimilated baptized Jewish family. The French governess who joined the family when Loewenstein was 3 seems to have provided stability and warmth. Later he often spoke of her with affection.
Loewenstein was still in high school when World War I broke out. In 1915, following a year of increasing difficulties with his father, he left his parents' home, wanting to go to France. He stopped in Zurich, where he remained and entered a technical school, planning to become an electrical engineer. There he met Henry Nunberg, Herman Nunberg's brother, and the Russian analyst Leo Kaplan, with whom he began an analysis. This analysis lasted only a short time, but