Editing Hans Eysenck (section)

==Life==
[[File:Hans and Sybil Eysenck.jpg|thumb|upright|left|With his wife Sybil]]

Eysenck was born in [[Berlin]], Germany. His mother was [[Silesia]]n-born film star [[Helga Molander]], and his father, Eduard Anton Eysenck, was an actor and nightclub entertainer who was once voted "handsomest man on the Baltic coast". His mother was Lutheran and his father was Catholic. Eysenck was brought up by his maternal grandmother who was a Jewish convert to Catholicism. Subjected to the [[Nuremberg laws]], she was deported and died in a concentration camp.<ref name=EysenckRebel>Eysenck, H. J., ''Rebel with a Cause (an Autobiography)'', London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1990</ref>{{rp|8–11}}<ref name="Buchanan2010a">{{cite book|author=Buchanan, R. D.|title=Playing With Fire: The Controversial Career of Hans J. Eysenck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOoX7fBWY-oC&pg=PA320|year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-856688-5|pages=25–30}}</ref>{{rp|80}}
An initial move to England in the 1930s became permanent because of his opposition to the [[Nazism|Nazi]] party and its persecutions. "My hatred of [[Hitler]] and the Nazis, and all they stood for, was so overwhelming that no argument could counter it."<ref name="EysenckRebel" />{{rp|40}} Because of his German citizenship, he was initially unable to gain employment, and he came close to being interned during the war.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Hans_Jurgen_Eysenck.aspx |title=Hans Jürgen Eysenck Facts, information, pictures &#124; Encyclopedia.com articles about Hans Jürgen Eysenck |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=22 July 2011}}</ref> He received his PhD in 1940 from [[University College London]] (UCL) working in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Professor Sir [[Cyril Burt]], with whom he had a tumultuous professional relationship throughout his working life.<ref name="EysenckRebel" />{{rp|118–119}}

Eysenck was Professor of Psychology at the [[Institute of Psychiatry]], [[King's College London]], from 1955 to 1983. He was a major contributor to the modern scientific theory of personality and helped find treatment for mental illnesses.<ref>''Behaviour Therapy and the Neurosis'', edited by Hans Eysenck, London: Pergamon Press, 1960.</ref><ref>Eysenck, Hans J., ''Experiments in Behaviour Therapy'', London: [[Pergamon Press]], 1964.</ref> Eysenck also created and developed a distinctive dimensional model of personality structure based on empirical factor-analytic research, attempting to anchor these factors in biogenetic variation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=24&editionID=199&ArticleID=1835 |title=Buchanan, R. D. "Looking back: The controversial Hans Eysenck", ''The Psychologist, 24'', Part 4, April 2011. |access-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114734/http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=24&editionID=199&ArticleID=1835 |archive-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1981, Eysenck became a founding member of the [[World Cultural Council]].<ref>{{cite web | title = About Us | publisher = [[World Cultural Council]] | url = http://www.consejoculturalmundial.org/about-us/ | access-date = 8 November 2016}}</ref> He was the founding editor of the international journal ''[[Personality and Individual Differences]]'', and wrote about 80 books and more than 1,600 journal articles.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/10/world/hans-j-eysenck-81-a-heretic-in-the-field-of-psychotherapy.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Hans J. Eysenck, 81, a Heretic in the Field of Psychotherapy | first=William H. | last=Honan |author-link=William H. Honan | date=10 September 1997 | access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref> With his first wife, Hans Eysenck had a son [[Michael Eysenck]], who is also a psychology professor. He had four children with his second wife, Sybil Eysenck: Gary, Connie, Kevin, and Darrin. Hans and Sybil Eysenck collaborated as psychologists for many years at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, as co-authors and researchers. Sybil Eysenck died in December 2020, and Hans Eysenck died of a brain tumour<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freespace.virgin.net/darrin.evans/apapres.htm |title=APA Presidents Remember: Hans Eysenck — Visionary Psychologist |access-date=13 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007181102/http://freespace.virgin.net/darrin.evans/apapres.htm |archive-date=7 October 2008 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> in a London hospice in 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.a2zpsychology.com/great_psychologists/hans_j_eysenck.htm |title=Hans J. Eysenck |access-date=13 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106122532/http://www.a2zpsychology.com/great_psychologists/hans_j_eysenck.htm |archive-date=6 November 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> He was an atheist.<ref>{{cite book | first=Michael | last=Martin | date=2007 | title=The Cambridge Companion to Atheism | publisher=Cambridge University Press | page=310 | isbn=9780521842709 | quote=Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including...Hans Jürgen Eysenck...}}</ref>

The Eysencks' home was at [[10 Dorchester Drive]], Herne Hill, London from 1960 until their respective deaths.<ref name="When">{{cite journal |title=When is a house unique? |last1=Marsh |first1=Laurence |journal=Herne Hill |date=Winter 2021 |issue=152 |publisher=Herne Hill Society |url=https://issuu.com/hernehillsociety/docs/herne-hill-mag-152/s/14746590 }}</ref>