Lili Elbe Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Lili Elbe? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Lili Elbe from The Danish Girl 2015 and what is the personality traits.
INFP (9w1)
Lili Elbe personality type is INFP, and she came to be known under the name Lili Marleen.
Lili was born on the first of December, 1882 in Dresden, Germany. Her mother died when she was ten years old, and she was raised by her stepmother then left alone. In 1889 she was sent to a finishing school, where she met and befriended Hans, who shared her love of music, poetry and painting.
In 1895 she met Hans at the grand ball of the local opera house in Dresden. They began to correspond and Hans proposed marriage, though Lili didn't want to marry at the time. After an argument they broke up, and Lili began to develop an obsession with Hans.
After Hans left for Paris, Lili began to communicate with him using telegrams that he would send to the telegraph office where he worked. On January 31, 1899, she traveled to Paris, where she met up with Hans at the hotel he was staying in. She asked him to marry her and he accepted, but only after Lili promised him that their marriage would be ideal, and that she would never try to leave him.
Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter and transgender woman, and among the early recipients of sex reassignment surgery. She was a successful painter under her birth name. After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes and stopped painting; she later adopted the surname Elbe. She died from complications following a uterus transplant. The US and UK English versions of her semi-autobiographical narrative were published posthumously in 1933 under the title Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex.
