Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn

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Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (19 October 1881 – 1962) was a Dutch spiritualist,

theosophist
, and scholar who gained recognition in the 1920s. She lived in Switzerland for most of her life.

Early life

Olga was born in London, the first child of Dutch parents Truus Muysken (1855–1920), a

Tonhalle Orchestra since 1908, but his conducting career took the couple to Braunschweig, Munich and by late 1910 to Berlin. At the outbreak of World War I they relocated from Berlin back to Zurich, where Olga had a literary salon known as the "Table Ronde" (round table). They had twin daughters in May 1915, but Iwan died shortly after in a plane crash in September 1915 in Fischamend near Vienna.[3]

Studies

In 1920 Olga and her father visited the

Hermann Graf Keyserling in Darmstadt, whose members were engrossed in investigating the common root of all religions, as well as members of the Ecumenical Circle
in Marburg.

Eranos foundation

In 1928, with as yet no clear purpose in mind, she built a conference room near her home. Carl Jung suggested that she use the conference room as a "meeting place between East and West" (Begegnungsstätte zwischen Ost und West).[4] This gave birth to the annual meeting of intellectual minds known as Eranos, which today continues to provide an opportunity for scholars of many different fields to meet and share their research and ideas on human spirituality. [5] The name "Eranos" was suggested to her by religious historian

archetypes
. This annual lecture program began in August 1933. The "Eranos Tagungen" invited intellectuals to give scholarly lectures, published as the Eranos Jahrbuch (Eranos year book).[6]

Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism

Olga found images to illustrate each annual lecture.

National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Her diverse and intensive studies provided her with material for her Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
which contains more than six thousand images and assisted the research of many Eranos lecturers and other scholars over the years.

Death

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn died at her home in Casa Gabriella in 1962.

External links

References

  1. ^ a b P.J. Meertens, Annemarie Kloosterman, Biography of Geertruida Agneta Muysken (in Dutch)
  2. ^ Maude, Aylmer (1933). Marie Stopes: Her Work and Play. John Bale & Sons and Danielsson. p. 42.
  3. ^ Zdravko Blazekovic, Zašto je Ivan (Iwan) Hermann Fröbe napustio Zagreb? (in Croatian)
  4. ^ Eranos Foundation, biography of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Archived 2007-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Gronning, Torben, Patricia Sohl, and Thomas Singer. “ARAS: Archetypal Symbolism and Images.” Visual Resources 23, no. 3 (2007): 245–67.
  6. ^ Campbell, Joseph. Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
  7. ^ Gronning, Torben, Patricia Sohl, and Thomas Singer. “ARAS: Archetypal Symbolism and Images.” Visual Resources 23, no. 3 (2007): 245–67.
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