Marie Bonaparte (1882–1962)

Princess Marie Bonaparte was born in Saint-Cloud, France, a descendant of the Emperor Napoleon's brother Lucien. Her parents were Prince Roland Bonaparte and his wife Marie-Félix Blanc, who died just one month after Marie's birth. She was raised at Saint-Cloud, near Paris, and other family estates with few companions, and rarely saw her father, who spent most of his time on his work with the Geographical Society. In 1907, she married Prince George of Greece and Denmark, 13 years her senior, with whom she had two children. Princess Marie became interested in psychoanalysis, and after analysis with Sigmund Freud at age 45, she became a well-known analyst and writer herself. She and Freud were close and she translated his work into French. She used the great wealth inherited from her mother to put up the ransom that the Nazis required to allow Freud and his family to leave Vienna for London in 1938. She also helped at least 200 other Jewish families flee from Nazi Germany. Princess Marie also used her money to help set up a school in Paris to train psychoanalysts and to popularize psychoanalysis. She made a lifelong study of female sexuality that produced several books, including Feminine Sexuality (1953). She admired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and wrote a 700-page psychobiography called The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation, published in 1949.



Sie war die Urenkelin Lucien Bonapartes, des Bruders von Napoléon Bonaparte. 1907 heiratete sie Prinz Georg von Griechenland. Sie übersetzte die Werke Freuds. Sie verfasste Studien über Edgar Allan Poe, die Triebtheorie und die weibliche Sexualität. land.