Donald Brinkmann

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Donald Brinkmann (born February 9, 1909 in Zurich ; † August 28, 1963 in Zurich) was a Swiss psychologist and philosopher .

Life

Brinkmann studied from 1927 to 1929 at the ETH Zurich and graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt the title of Dipl.-Ing. (Masch.). 1934 doctorate he attended the University of Zurich to Dr. phil. with an experimental psychological investigation of the influence of "glare on the recognition of colored light signals". At the same university Brinkmann was titular professor for philosophy and psychology.

In 1949 Brinkmann took part in the first National Congress for Philosophy in Argentina.

Fonts (selection)

  • Nature and art. Zurich: Rascher, 1938.
  • Problems of the unconscious. Zurich: Rascher, 1943.
  • Switzerland's share in the development of psychology. Bern: Huber, 1944.
  • The essence of the musical object. Self-published (Zurich, Dunantstrasse 2: Prof. Dr. D. Brinkmann), 1945.
  • Man and technology. Bern: Francke, 1946.
  • With Ernst Boller and Emil J. Walter : Introduction to color theory. Bern: Francke, 1947.
  • Augustin Hirschvogel and Paracelsus . Klagenfurt: History Association f. Carinthia, 1957.
  • Georg Büchner as a philosopher. Viernheim: Verlag Viernheim, 1958.

literature

  • Nature, technology, people; a memorial for Donald Brinkman. Series of publications of the International Institute Schloss Mainau , Volume 9. Konstanz: Bahn, 1965. OCLC 14504635
  • Wiesing, Lambert: Phenomenology and the question, When is art? ' In: Lambert Wiesing: Phenomena in the picture. Munich: Fink, 2007, pp. 99–126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in the Schweizerische Bauzeitung , 81st year, issue 36, September 5, 1963, p. 641.
  2. ^ Donald Brinkmann: El hombre y la técnica / people and technology. Actas del Primer Congreso Nacional de Filosofía (Mendoza 1949), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Buenos Aires 1950, tomo I, págs. 257-269.
personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1963
Place of death Zurich