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Koffka, Kurt
Berlin, Germany
18.03.1886
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
22.11.1941 |
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| Degrees: |
Ph.D. in psychology, University of Berlin, 1908 |
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1903 studies of philosophy in Berlin and Edinburgh; 1905 switched to psychology; 1908 received a doctorate in Berlin under Carl Stumpf (Experimental-Untersuchungen zur Lehre vom Rhythmus); 1908/09 assistant to Johannes von Kries in Freiburg; 1909/10 assistant to Oswald Külpe and Karl Marbe in Würzburg; 1910/11 assistant with Wolfgang Köhler to Friedrich Schumann in Frankfurt, where he met Max Wertheimer; 1911 habilitated in Giessen with the investigation Zur Analyse der Vorstellungen und ihrer Gesetze; determined brain injuries during First World War; 1918 associate professor at the University of Giessen; 1924/25 visiting professor at the Cornell University, New York; 1926/27 teaching at the University of Wisconsin; 1927 ended his function at the University of Giessen and took over a professorship at the Smith College in Northampton. |
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Koffka, Kurt. 1909. Untersuchungen an einem protanomalen System. Zeitschrift für Sinnesphysiologie 43: 123-145
Koffka, K. 1923. Über Feldbegrenzung und Felderfüllung. Psychologische Forschung: Zeitschrift für Psychologie und ihre Grenzwissenschaften 4: 176-203
Koffka, Kurt. 1935. Principles of Gestalt psychology. New York: Harcourt, Brace
Koffka, Kurt. 1921. Die Grundlagen der psychischen Entwicklung: eine Einführung in die Kinderpsychologie. Osterwieck am Harz: Zickfeldt
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Zusne ; NDB ; Rudolf Vierhaus, ed. 2006. Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. München: Saur |
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See also Rand B. Evans documentary film Psychologists 1927-1933 (24th annual meeting of the Experimental Psychologists Kent Hall, Yale University, April 5-7, 1928, at min. 05:32; Ninth International Congress of Psychology Yale University, New Haven, Conn., September 1-7, 1929, at min. 10:01, 11:26; Tenth International Congress of Psychology, Copenhagen 1932, at min. 17:08). |
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