Anton Hajós

Anton Hajós (born February 19, 1935 in Kapuvár , Hungary ; † June 18, 2001 in Heidelberg ) was a Hungarian-German psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Giessen .

Life

Born near the Austro-Hungarian border, Hajós had to flee to Austria during the Hungarian uprising in 1956 . He later became an assistant to Ivo Kohler at the University of Innsbruck and continued the experiments with prism glasses that had started under Theodor Erismann . In 1965 he moved to Germany and completed his habilitation in 1969 at the natural science faculty at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1970 he accepted a call at the University of Giessen to a newly created chair for psychology and expanded it into an institute for physiological and cybernetic psychology. He held this professorship until his retirement in 2001.

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Hajós belonged to the third generation of the Innsbruck school of perceptual psychology and remained a prominent representative of perceptual psychology even after moving to Germany. His pioneering work on contour-specific color effects became known. One of the applications resulting from the studies by Hajós was glasses, with which patients with red-green color blindness can again distinguish the colors without errors based on spatial information, although the surfaces are still only seen in gray.

As host, Hajós hosted the conference of experimental psychologists in Gießen in 1974 and 1991 .

selected Writings

• Anton Hajós: Introduction to Perceptual Psychology. 2nd Edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1991.
• Anton Hajós: Perceptual Psychology. Psychophysics and Perception Research. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983.
• Anton Hajós: Perceptual psychological indicators of neural structures. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982.

Literature about Anton Hajós

• Gert Haubensack, Wolfgang Pieper: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Anton Hajós. In: Psychological Rundschau. (2002) 53, (1), p. 35.

Individual evidence

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