Dimitri Usnadze

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Dimitri Usnadze

Dimitri Usnadze ( Georgian დიმიტრი უზნაძე ; * December 2, 1886 in Sakara, Sestaponi district , Imeretia ; † October 9, 1950 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian psychologist . He was a professor and co-founder of the Tbilisi State University and the Georgian Academy of Sciences .

He came from a Georgian noble family. In 1904 he passed the Abitur at the Georgian Gymnasium in Kutaisi . In 1909 he completed his studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . In the same year he did his doctorate at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale) on the epistemology of Vladimir S. Solovyov.

From 1910 to 1917 Usnadze taught world history at the grammar school in Kutaisi. In 1918 he was a co-founder of the Tbilisi State University . From 1918 to 1950 he was professor and dean of the Psychological Faculty of the University of Tbilisi. In 1941 he co-founded the Georgian Academy of Sciences and was the first director of the Institute of Psychology that was later named after him until 1950 .

Usnadze was mainly concerned with philosophy , the history of philosophy , linguistic psychology , educational theory and experimental pedagogy , formulated the theory of unconscious mental attitudes . He wrote his scientific work in German and Russian. Mainly because of his early contributions to language psychology and attitude and set theory, he is considered the most important Georgian exponent of gestalt theory .

Fonts (selection)

  • Demeter von Usnadze: The metaphysical world view of Vladimir S. Solowiows with an orienting overview of his epistemology . Kaemmerer, Halle as 1909
  • Dmitrij N. Uznadze: Henri Bergson . Tbilisi 1923
  • D. Usnadze: An experimental contribution to the problem of the psychological basis of naming . Psychological Research 1924, Vol. 5 (1-2), pp. 24-43.
  • D. Usnadze: On the problem of understanding meaning . In: VIII th international Congress of Psychology. Held at Groningen from 6 to 11 September 1926. Proceedings and Papers. P. Noordhoff-Groningen, 1927, pp. 440-442.
  • D. Usnadze: On the problem of understanding meaning (content and subject) . In: Archive for the whole of psychology, 1927, B. 58 (1-2), pp. 163–186.
  • D. Usnadze: The concept formation in pre-school age , magazine for applied psychology 34 (Leipzig 1929), 138-212.
  • D. Usnadze: On the problem of recording relations in animals. In: Archives for the whole of psychology. Volume 60, 1927, pp. 361-390.
  • Dmitrij N. Uznadze: Studies on the psychology of attitude . Acta Psychologica, Vol. IV, No. 3, 1939
  • Dimitrij N. Uznadze: Eksperimental'nye osnovy psichologii ustanovki . Izdat. Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, Tbilisi 1961
  • Dmitrij N. Uznadze: The Psychology of Set . Consultants Bureau, New York 1966
  • Dmitrij N. Uznadze: Psichologiceskie issledovanija . Izd. Nauka, Moskva 1966
  • Dimitrij N. Uznadze: Attitude Psychology: Investigations of the Georgian School . Edited by Manfred Vorwerg, People and Knowledge, Berlin 1976

literature

  • AC Prangisvili [u. a.]: Psichologiceskie issledovanija: posvjascennie 85 -ltiju so dnja pozdenija DN Uznadze . Mecniereba, Tbilisi 1973
  • Akad. Nauk Gruzinskoj SSR, Inst. Psichologii Im. DN Uznaze (Ed.): Dmitrij Nikolaevic Uznadze - classic sovetskoj psichologii: psichologic. issledovanija, posvjascennye 100-letiju so dnja rozdenija . Izd. Mecniereba, Tbilisi 1986
  • Ulrike Linkner: Theoretical and experimental approaches to the theory of ustanovka according to Usnadze as a starting point for differential psychological investigations into behavioral regulation . Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Usnadze, Dimitri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES დიმიტრი უზნაძე (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Sakara, Sestaponi County , Imereti
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1950
Place of death Tbilisi