Nagel, Hildegard, 1886-

Daughter of Charles and Fanny (Brandeis) Nagel, Hildegard Nagel, editor, translator, and author, was born and raised in St. Louis, Mo. Her early years were marked by the death of her brother Alfred and the suicide of her mother, Fanny (Brandeis) Nagel, sister of Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Following her graduation from Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., Nagel worked with a psychoanalyst at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she met her lifelong friend, Ellen Thayer, a magazine editor.

A student of Carl Jung and Gerhard Adler, Nagel spent most of her professional life as a psychiatric social worker in New York City. She was a member of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology and president of the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Through her writing and editing, Nagel helped to disseminate Jungian ideas in the United States. She died on February 16, 1985, in Buzzards Bay, Mass.