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Gabriele Gräfin von Wartensleben and the birth of gestaltpsychologie
Author(s) -
Harper Robert S.,
Newman Edwin B.,
Schab Frank R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198504)21:2<118::aid-jhbs2300210203>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - fin de siecle , statement (logic) , humanities , sociology , art history , art , philosophy , epistemology
Gestaltpsychologie had its birth in the fertile intellectual climate of Frankfurt am Main several years before the official founding of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University at Frankfurt. Among those in the group surrounding Max Wertheimer and applying his ideas each to their own special problems were Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler, and Gabriele Gräfin von Wartensleben. In addition to being the first woman to receive a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Vienna, Von Wartensleben was the first person to publish a didactic statement of Wertheimer's general principles of Gestalttheorie .