Article ID: CBB001214432

Max Wertheimer, Habilitation Candidate at the Frankfurt Psychological Institute (2014)

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Gundlach, Horst (Author)


History of Psychology
Volume: 17, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 134-148


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “On the occasion of the centenary of Max Wertheimer's article on the “phi phenomenon””
Language: English

Max Wertheimer told Edwin B. Newman that it was pure chance that on his way to the Rhineland he prematurely got off the train in Frankfurt, and that he did so because he had an inspiration for an experiment that he wanted to perform. Most historians of psychology accept this anecdote, but fail to mention that thereby Wertheimer also mastered the next and decisive step toward his academic career in accomplishing his Habilitation. Exposing the institutional, personal, and intellectual context of Wertheimer's going to Frankfurt and giving a detailed account of the procedure of Habilitation will show that Newman's and similar reports of the episode, even if verbatim to Wertheimer's own telling, are nevertheless too improbable to accept at face value. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)

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Authors & Contributors
Werthheimer, Michael
Sommer, Andreas
Wolff, Stefan L.
Wertheimer, Max
Sucker, Ulrich
Stock, Armin
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Psychology
National Socialism
Science and politics
Gestalt psychology
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Hamburg (Germany)
Spain
Europe
Soviet Union
Institutions
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie, Berlin
Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Berliner Psychologisches Institut
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