Lou Andreas-Salomé

German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author

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Lived 1861–1937, aged 76

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1861–1937
Aged 76

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Russian-born intellectual who moved through fin-de-siècle Europe collecting friendships with Nietzsche, Freud, and Rilke like others collected art. Psychoanalyst, essayist, and the kind of person whose salon moments became literary history.

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Lou Andreas-Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Paul Rée, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

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