Max Wertheimer
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1880-04-15
- Died
- 1943-10-12
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Prodictive Thinking
- Productive Thinking - Enlarged Edition 1959
- A Famous Theory
- Max Wertheimer Productive Thinking
- Drei Abhandlungen zur Gestalttheorie
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Key facts
- Born
- April 15, 1880 ( 1880-04-15 ) , Prague , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- October 12, 1943 (1943-10-12) (aged 63), New Rochelle, New York , U.S.
- Education
- University of Würzburg ( PhD , 1904), University of Prague
- Fields
- Psychology
- Institutions
- Frankfurt University , The New School
- Doctoral advisor
- Oswald Külpe
- Doctoral students
- Rudolf Arnheim , Erika Fromm , Kurt Lewin
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Key dates
- Born
- 15 April 1880
- Died
- 12 October 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Max
- Family name
- Wertheimer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Place of death
- New Rochelle
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Languages spoken
- German
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Max Wertheimer ( Austrian German: [ˈvɛrthaɪ̯mɐ]; April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book Productive Thinking and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology.
Wertheimer became interested in psychology and studied under Carl Stumpf at the University of Berlin. Wertheimer then went on to obtain his PhD in 1904 under Oswald Külpe, at the University of Würzburg and then began his intellectual career teaching at the Institute for Social Research at Frankfurt University. For a short time, he left Frankfurt to work at the Berlin Psychological Institute, but returned in 1929 as a full professor.
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