Katia Krafft

Catherine Marie Joséphine Conrad · カティア・クラフト · كاتيا كرافت

Katia Krafft, born Catherine Marie Joséphine Conrad on April 17, 1942, in the town of Soultz-Haut-Rhin, in Alsace, to Charles and Madeleine Conrad. From her childhood, Katia Krafft showed an assertive character to the point of sometimes being turbulent. Her parents, Charles and Madeleine, respectively a worker and a schoolteacher, wanted their daughter to settle down and so they sent her to do part of her schooling in a religious school. She became a schoolteacher, then a mathematics professor, after passing the competitive examination for the École Normale in 1957 and studying physics and ge...