Carl Count Hoyos
Carl Graf Hoyos (* 6. May 1923 in Baumgarten , Silesia, † 8. February 2012 in Icking ) was a German psychologist and emeritus professor at the Technical University of Munich . His field of work was industrial and organizational psychology .
biography
From 1947 to 1951 Graf Hoyos studied psychology in Berlin and Hamburg . After his doctorate as Dr. phil. with a work on probation control in personnel selection at Curt Bondy in 1954, he worked at the Medical-Psychological Institute of TÜV Hanover , at the Max Planck Institute for Occupational Physiology in Dortmund and at the Institute for Ergonomics at the Technical University, now the Technical University, in Munich . In 1967 he qualified as a professor in psychology. In 1968 he received a professorship for psychology at the University of Regensburg , and in 1972 the newly established chair at the Technical University of Munich, which he held until his retirement in 1989.
Graf Hoyos' professional interests focused on the psychological aspects of accident research and accident prevention in working life and in road traffic, as well as the interaction between man and machine in general . Count Hoyos' memorandum on the state of psychology from 1964 was influential for education and research policy .
Awards
- Hugo Münsterberg Medal of the Professional Association of German Psychologists (BDP) , 1995
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Dortmund , 2001
Works (selection)
- Memorandum on the state of psychology , Steiner, Wiesbaden 1964
- Work psychology . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-17-001590-7 (textbook)
- Industrial and organizational psychology. A textbook . Beltz, Weinheim 1999, ISBN 3-621-27432-4 (editor, with Dieter Frey )
Count Hoyos was editor of the journal Psychologie und Praxis .
Individual evidence
literature
- André Büssing : Carl Graf Hoyos 80 years . In: TUM Mitteilungen 5, 2003, p. 53
- Kürschner's Scholars Calendar , KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Graf Hoyos in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary . Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID) at the University of Trier
- Lutz von Rosenstiel : Carl Graf Hoyos died . Business Psychology Current (online), March 12, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoyos, Carl Graf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoyos, Carl Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baumgarten (Silesia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 2012 |
| Place of death | Icking |