Margaret Lowenfeld
| Margaret Frances Jane Lowenfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Margaret Lowenfeld 4 February 1890 Knightsbridge, London |
| Died | 2 February 1973 (aged 82) St John's Wood, London |
| Resting place | St Lawrence's Church, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Royal Free Hospital, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow |
| Occupation | Medical practitioner, researcher and trainer |
| Known for | pioneer in Developmental psychology and Play therapy |
| Parent(s) | Henry Lowenfeld, Alice Evans |
Margaret Frances Jane Lowenfeld (4 February 1890 – 2 February 1973) was a British pioneer of child psychology and play therapy, a medical researcher in paediatric medicine, and an author of several publications and academic papers on the study of child development and play. Lowenfeld developed a number of educational techniques which bear her name and although not mainstream, have achieved international recognition.
Margaret Lowenfield was born in Lowndes Square in Knightsbridge, London on 4 February 1890, as their second daughter, to a British mother and Polish father. Her father, Henry Lowenfeld from a wealthy family, had arrived in England in the early 1880s, apparently penniless from Silesia. He married Alice Evans, in 1884. He soon became a wealthy businessman through several ventures, such as buying up rundown theatres in the West End of London and starting the Kops Brewery in Fulham, selling non-alcoholic beer as the temperance movement took hold. Lowenfeld was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, England, with her older sister, Helena Rosa Wright who went on to be an influential figure in birth control and family planning.
Lowenfeld followed her sister into the London Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women in Bloomsbury, London. By the outbreak of the First World War, she had passed the minimum requirement to practice medicine, In 1914 she got a job at the Royal Free Hospital followed by a short period at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1917 she got the MRCS (Eng.) and LRCP (Lond.) and the MB, BS (Lond.). In 1918 she became a house surgeon at the South London Hospital for Women.
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