Raina Fehl
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Raina Fehl in Rome 2008
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| Born | Maria Raina Leonora Ruth Schweinburg 23 August 1920 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 3 May 2009 (aged 88) Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Classicist, Writer, Editor |
| Nationality | United States, Austrian |
| Spouse | Philipp Fehl |
| Children | two daughters Katharine, "Kathy Fehl", and Caroline Coulston |
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Raina Fehl (August 23, 1920 — May 3, 2009) was an Austrian-born American classicist, writer and editor. She immigrated to the United States, 1939. United States citizen since 1944. U.S. Army Service 1945-1946, Psychiatric Social Worker, U.S. War Department, Research Analyst, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946-1947. Married Philipp Fehl December 11, 1945. Mother of two daughters, Katharine, "Kathy Fehl", and Caroline Coulston. She died May 3, 2009, in Appleton, Wisconsin She is buried near family at The Eternal Home Cemetery,Block 1540, Row A, Space 6, Colma California.
Her delightful smile, her beauty, her knowledge were extraordinary and memorable. She was admirable in so many ways, not the least of which was "the way she sacrificed so much of her own time and talent to further [her husband's] work, both while he was alive, and after his death: she was an absolute model of devotion. But of course her greatest quality was her own personality, her probity and honesty, and her capacity for loyal friendship." Jennifer Montagu, Chair, Gombrich Archive, Warburg Institute. Her joy in learning is epitomized in the story told by her colleague, Paul Olson, who fondly remembers her driving him to work with a Greek dictionary on the steering wheel. Paul Olson, Professor Emeritus Department of English, University of Nebraska. She and her work are discussed in the comic-philosophical novel Harmony Junction by Goddard Graves (2009, privately published).
Born August 23, 1920, Vienna, Austria. Immigrated into the United States, 1939. United States citizen since 1944. U.S. Army Service 1945-1946, Psychiatric Social Worker, U.S. War Department, Research Analyst, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946-1947. Married Philipp Fehl December 11, 1945. Mother of two daughters, Katharine and Caroline.
Maria Raina Fehl was known as Raina (pronounced as if you were saying the Rhine River with a soft "a" on the end Rhine-a). She was the daughter of the poet/author/civil rights attorney, Erich Fritz Schweinburg, 1890-1959 buried Rochester, Vermont, and the humanitarian, Rosa Gussman Schweinburg. From her birth, she fought many physical battles, starting with contracting and surviving smallpox in the center where she was born. She was restrained with tiny baby sized fetters and came away with only two tiny scars. Although throughout her life, she suffered from difficult health problems, she never defined herself by her illnesses or any other of her life's hardships. Instead, she lived her life with grace and energy and maintained that vitality to the very end of her life.
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