Muriel Gardiner Buttinger was an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.
13 Facts About Muriel Gardiner
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Similarly to other writers of the Lost Generation, Muriel Gardiner was born into a family of wealth and privilege.
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Muriel Gardiner attended the University of Oxford and then, in 1926, went to what was then still "Red Vienna", hoping to study psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud.
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Muriel Gardiner received a degree in medicine from the University of Vienna and married Joseph Buttinger, leader of the underground wing of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.
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Muriel Gardiner edited The Wolf-Man by the Wolf-Man, which documents the case history of Sergei Pankejeff, a member of the Russian nobility who travelled to Vienna to be treated for clinical depression in 1910 and was psychoanalyzed by Freud.
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Muriel Gardiner met Freud only once, but she had known Pankejeff very well in Vienna, and Code Name Mary carries a foreword by Freud's daughter, Anna Freud.
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Between 1965 and 1984, Muriel Gardiner gave a total of 585 acres to the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, including Brookdale Farm and two other properties.
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In 1983, Muriel Gardiner became entangled in the controversy between Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman, when she claimed that she was the character called Julia in Hellman's alleged memoirs, Pentimento, and in the movie Julia based on a chapter in that alleged memoir.
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Hellman, who never met Muriel Gardiner, insisted that her friend really was "Julia" and was killed by the Gestapo as described in the story and was someone completely different.
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Muriel Gardiner wrote that, while she never met Hellman, she had often heard about her from a friend, Wolf Schwabacher, who was Hellman's lawyer.
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Muriel Gardiner was briefly married to physician Harold Abramson in 1925.
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Muriel Gardiner married Joseph Buttinger before the couple fled Europe in 1939.
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Muriel Gardiner died of cancer on February 6,1985, in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 83.