Sybille Bianca Giulietta Eysenck (/ˈaɪzɛŋk/ EYE-zenk; March 1927 – December 2020) was a personality psychologist and the widow of the psychologist Hans Eysenck, with whom she collaborated as psychologists at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, as co-authors and researchers.
Sybil Eysenck (née Rostal) was born on 16 March 1927 as the only child of violinist Max Rostal and cellist Sela Trau (1898–1991)[1] in Vienna. In 1934, she went with her parents into exile to Great Britain. In 1946 she became a naturalised British subject.[2] Sybil Eysenck died on 5 December 2020 in London, England, at the age of 93.
Sybil Eysenck received a BSc in psychology in 1952, and a PhD in psychology in 1955, both from the University of London. After a long career (1953–1992) as a psychologist and senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, England, she retired in 1992. Eysenck was a magistrate in London in the 1980s.
Eysenck was the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Personality and Individual Differences[3] and the author of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory[4] and its accompanying manuals.
