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Köhler, Wolfgang
Tallinn, Estonia
21.01.1887
Enfield, New Hampshire, USA
11.06.1967 |
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| Degrees: |
Ph.D. in psychology, University of Berlin, 1909 |
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1905/06 studies of philosophy, history and natural sciences at the University of Tübingen; 1906/07 psychology, mathematics and philosophy in Bonn; 1907-09 studies of psychology, philosophie and natural science under Carl Stumpf, Max Planck and Walther Nernst at the University of Berlin; received a doctorate in 1909 with the dissertation Akustische Untersuchungen; 1910 assistant besides Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Adhémar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein at the Psychological Institute of Frankfurt am Main, where Köhler and Koffka served as subjects in a crucial experiment of Wertheimer, all cofounders of the Gestalt school of psychology; habilitation in 1911; 1913-1920 director of the Anthropoid Research Station of the Prussian Academy of Sciences on Tenerife; 1921 professor of experimental psychology and philosophy and director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Göttingen in succession to G. E. Müller; 1922-35 professor and director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin in succession to Stumpf (until 1929 with Wertheimer and until 1932 with Kurt Lewin); 1934/35 visiting professor at Harvard University; resignation of his positions in Berlin and emigration to the USA; 1935-1948 professor of psychology and philosophy at Swarthmore College, 1946-1958 research professor; co-founder and co-editor of Psychologische Forschung (1921-38); several visiting professorships (Clark University in Worcester, Chicago, Edinburgh, Princeton); 1959 president of the American Psychological Association; 1959 Emeritus Professor, Free University of Berlin. |
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Köhler, Wolfgang. 1915. Aus der Anthropoidenstation auf Teneriffa II: Optische Untersuchungen am Schimpansen und am Haushuhn. Berlin
Köhler, Wolfgang. 1917. Aus der Anthropoidenstation auf Teneriffa III: Intelligenzprüfungen an Anthropoiden I. Berlin
Köhler, Wolfgang. 1918. Aus der Anthropoidenstation auf Teneriffa IV: Nachweis einfacher Strukturfunktionen beim Schimansen und beim Haushuhn über eine neue Methode zur Untersuchung des bunten Farbensystems. Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Köhler, Wolfgang. 1929. Gestalt psychology. New York: Liveright
Köhler, Wolfgang. 1925. The mentality of apes. New York |
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Zusne ; Schmidt ; DSB |
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See also Rand B. Evans documentary film Psychologists 1927-1933 (Ninth International Congress of Psychology Yale University, New Haven, Conn., September 1-7, 1929, at min. 11:26; Tenth International Congress of Psychology, Copenhagen 1932, at min. 15:44). |
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