Oswald Külpe

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Oswald Külpe (born August 3, 1862 in Kandau , Courland in Latvia , † December 30, 1915 in Munich ) was a German psychologist and philosopher . He was the founder of the Würzburg School of Thinking Psychology .

Life and accomplishments

Oswald Külpe received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1887 under Wilhelm Wundt . For the next eight years he was Wundt's assistant.

In 1894 he became a professor at the University of Würzburg and in 1896 founded the Institute for Psychology there. In 1909 he became a professor at the University of Bonn and in 1912 at the University of Munich .

Külpe's pupils included David Braunschweiger , Ernst Bloch , Karl Bühler and Gottlieb Söhngen .

His brother Ernst married the writer Frances Külpe .

See also

Fonts

  • Outline of Psychology , Leipzig 1893
  • The realization (3 vols., 1912-23)
  • Introduction to philosophy (9th verb. Ed. 1919 / 12th verb. Ed. 1928 edited by August Messer)
  • Immanuel Kant. Presentation and appreciation , Leipzig / Berlin: Teubner 5th edition 1921

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Individual evidence

  1. Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (editor) et al. : 2051 Braunschweiger, David, Dr. , in this: The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44107-3 and ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 101; Preview over google books