Leo Herland was a psychologist whose main area of expertise was the study of physiognomy - the study and interpretation of the face. He was born in Vienna, Austria in 1888. From August 1916 through March 1920 Leo Herland served in the military. In 1912 he married Melanie nee Sgalitzer, who was fourteen years older than him, and also from Vienna. In 1919 their daughter Lotte was born.
By 1935 Leo Herland had completed his studies at the Universität Wien. During the late 1920s and early 1930s he was active in the socialist movement in Vienna, and his writings were published in publications such as Freundschaft , Die Gemeinwirtschaft, and Arbeiter-Zeitung . In 1938 Leo Herland's book on physiognomy, Gesicht und Charakter, was published by Rascher Verlag. That same year he and his wife left Vienna. They first arrived in England in August, where their daughter Lotte was living, before continuing on to the United States a month later. Leo Herland spent much of his time in the 1940s and 1950s writing, and signed a contract with Frederick Ungar Publishing in 1952 for the publication of an English-German Dictionary of Mathematical Sciences . In 1953, Melanie Herland died. Gesicht und Charakter was published again in 1956 and 1975. A second edition of the dictionary was published in 1965. Leo Herland died in New York in 1969.
From the guide to the, 1890-2000, bulk 1924-1960, (Leo Baeck Institute)
