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Mira Koffka (1886-1976) was a German translator.

Life
Koffka was born in Berlin as Miriam Maxa Klein on 11 August 1886. She was the granddaughter of women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her mother was Hedwig's daughter Eva, and her father the sculptor Max Klein.

Whilst at university in Munich, Mira acted as a test subject in experimental psychology research carried out by Kurt Koffka. In 1909 she married

She divorced him before he married Elisabeth Ahlgrimm in 1923, then remarried him in 1926 and re-divorced him in 1928. She kept the surname Koffka from her first marriage onwards.

In 1910 Koffka received her doctorate from the University of Munich in 1910 with a thesis on the German writer Jean Paul Friedrich Richter. In the same year she moved to her husband to Frankfurt where had a job at the Institute for Psychology. She, her husband, and his colleague Wolfgang Kohler, were the three experimental subjects used by Wertheimer in his seminal Gestalt experiments.

In 1934 Koffka she joined the publishing house of her stepfather Bondi in Berlin.

Selected works

 * Mira (Klein) Koffka: Jean Pauls Bildersprache im Hesperus, Herrosé & Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1910


 * As translator


 * Honoré de Balzac: Eugenie Grandet, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1924; reissued B. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1952; Diogenes, Zürich 1977 and 2009
 * Erwin Schrödinger: Nature and the Greeks. Cosmos and physics.. Rowohlts Deutsche Enzyklopädie, Hamburg 1956
 * William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957
 * Charles Scott Sherrington: Body and Mind.Schünemann, Bremen 1964
 * Wolfgang Köhler: Values ​​and Facts. Springer, Berlin 1968 (Übers. zus. mit Ottilie C. Selbach)