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Hugo Münsterberg
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Hugo Münsterberg was a male psychologist, university teacher, philosopher, and writer who held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States. He was educated at Leipzig University and Heidelberg University, studying under doctoral advisors Wilhelm Wundt and Rudolf Leuckart. His professional career included positions at Harvard University and the University of Freiburg, with work locations in Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Freiburg im Breisgau. He was a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Münsterberg wrote in English and German, producing notable works such as *Beiträge zur experimentellen Psychologie*, *Social studies of today*, *On the witness stand*, *The eternal life*, and *My friends, the spiritualists*. He had doctoral students including Morris Raphael Cohen, Edwin Holt, and Robert Yerkes. He was born in Gdańsk and died in Cambridge from a myocardial infarction, which was classified as natural causes. His writings and life have been described in sources including the *Nordisk familjebok*, the *Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron*, the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition, and the *New International Encyclopedia*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1863
- Died
- 1916
- Works
- 76
Top works
- Beiträge zur experimentellen Psychologie
- Social studies of today
- On the witness stand
- The eternal life
- My friends, the spiritualists
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1860-03-13
- Active to
- 1903-02-22
Discography
- Goethe-Lieder 11960
- Wolf: Mörike-Lieder / Pfitzner: Eichendorff Lieder1965
- Song Recital1967
- Spanisches Liederbuch1967
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / Italian Serenade1969
- Mörike-Lieder1971
- Lieder, Volume 11974
- Smetana / Janáček / Wolf: Streichquartette / Bruckner: Streichquintett1982
- Goethe-Lieder1984
- Oeuvre intégrale pour quatuor à cordes1987
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- [13] Catalase in vitro
· 1984 · cited 21,308x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,297x
- 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
· 2020 · cited 8,240x
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Quotes
- “The knowledge of nature and the mastery of nature have always belonged together.”
- “Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.”
- “The inner labor, the inner values, and the inner difficulties and frictions are too often unknown to those who decide for a vocation, and they are unable to correlate those essential factors of the life-calling with all that nature by inheritance, and society by surroundings and training, have planted and developed in their minds.”
- “The theorists of scientific management seem to think that the most subtle methods are indispensable for physical measurements, but for psychological inquiry nothing but a kind of intuition is necessary.”
- “Only the subtle psychological individual analysis can overcome the superficial prejudices of group psychology.”
- “WE have placed our psychotechnical interest at the service of economic tasks... The purpose before us was to find for every economic occupation the best-fitted personality, both in the interest of economic success and in the interest of personal development.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hugo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Gdańsk
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Heidelberg University
- Employer
- University of Freiburg
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Rudolf Leuckart
- Image
- Hugo Münsterberg Psychologe.jpg
- Work location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1863-07-01
- date of death
- 1916-01-16
- Commons category
- Hugo Münsterberg
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Hugo Münsterberg
- writing language
- German
- has written for
- The Atlantic
- interested in
- philosophy
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Hugo Münsterberg, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana