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Mia Kellmer Pringle
Austrian-British child psychologist
Mia Lilly Kellmer Pringle (20 June 1920 – 21 February 1983) was an Austrian-British child psychologist.
She was the founding director of the British National Children's Bureau, where she oversaw the influential National Child Development Study.
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Over the course of her career, Pringle advocated for the needs and rights of children both through her research-informed policy work and in her many books and articles about early childhood development.[2]
Early life and education
Mia Kellmer Pringle was born in Vienna to Samuel Kellmer and Sophie Sobel.
Her younger brother Chanan Kella was her only sibling. Samuel Kellmer was a successful timber wholesaler, and the family was comfortably-middle class. Their circumstances changed swiftly after the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938, and Pringle and her mother were forced to flee to London as refugees.
This was a traumatic experience of poverty and displac