Albert Wellek

Albert Wellek (born October 16, 1904 in Vienna , † August 27, 1972 in Mainz ) was an Austro-German psychologist . He is considered a co-founder of modern music psychology and a representative of humanities-oriented psychology in the 20th century.

Life

After studying music, modern literature and philology in Prague and Vienna, he was trained in composition and conducting at the State Conservatory in Prague.

In 1928 he received his doctorate in Vienna with a thesis on the perception of music. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP organizations National Socialist Teachers Association and National Socialist German Lecturers Association and was block administrator of the National Socialist People's Welfare . In 1938 he qualified as a professor for psychology in Leipzig with the thesis "Typology of musical talent in the German people". After serving in the military as an army psychologist, he was appointed to represent the professorship for psychology at the University of Halle in 1942 . In the summer semester of 1943 he was also a deputy professor for psychology at the University of Breslau . In 1943 he became a regular professor of psychology at the University of Breslau. From 1946, Wellek taught as a full professor at the University of Mainz . Albert Wellek saw himself as a representative of the Second Leipzig School (gestalt psychology; Wellek referred primarily to Felix Krueger ). In everyday teaching, however, the importance of his musicological work faded into the background, because he trained graduate psychologists . His lectures in Mainz were still characterized in the 1960s by the lively discussion of the humanities approaches in psychology (especially) with newer psychological theories that emerged in Germany after the Second World War , as well as with psychology-relevant theories of Western philosophy.

His brother is the US literary scholar René Wellek (1903-1995).

Works

• Typology of musical talent in the German people: foundation of a psychological theory of music and music history. Munich: CH Beck, 1939 (2nd, complete and supplementary edition. With e. Nachtr .: Contemporary problems in music psychology and aesthetics. Munich: CH Beck, 1970).
• The problem of mental being: Felix Krueger's structural theory ; Interpretation and criticism; at the same time a contribution to the science of science and to the theory of character. Frankfurt a. M .: JA Barth, 1941.
• Music Psychology and Music Aesthetics: Outlines of Systematic Musicology. Frankfurt a. M .: Academic Publishing Institution, 1963.
• Psychology (Dalp paperbacks; 372 D). Bern: Francke, 1963.
• The polarity in the structure of the character: system of concrete character studies. 3., rework. and essential exp. Bern: Francke, 1966.
• [Hrsg.]: Complete directory of the German-language psychological literature from 1942 to 1960. Göttingen: Verlag f. Psychology Hogrefe, 1965.
• The relapse into the methodological crisis of psychology and its overcoming. 2nd edition 1970. ISBN 3-8017-0027-5 .
• Joke, poetry, language: contributions z. Literature and Language theory. With e. Appendix about d. Progress d. Science. Bern: Francke, 1970.
• Perfect pitch and its types. 2nd, for an afterword and a new bibliography, probably edition. Bern: Francke, 1970.

See also

• Leipzig School , Psychology

literature

• Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 397.

Web links

• Entry on Albert Wellek in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis