Franz Hillebrand

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German politician of the same name, see Franz Hillebrand (politician) .

Franz Hillebrand (born December 2, 1863 in Vienna , † April 24, 1926 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian philosopher and psychologist and founder of the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

After attending school in Kremsmünster, he began studying philosophy and natural sciences in Prague and Vienna in 1881 . He studied a. a. with Franz Brentano and did his doctorate in 1887 with Marty on synechological problems of scholasticism . He then worked at the Physiological Institute with the sensory physiologist Ewald Hering and at the Physical Institute with the experimental physicist Ernst Mach . In 1891 he completed his habilitation in philosophy with consideration of psychology in Vienna. Franz Hillebrand had previously been promised by the Ministry of Education that he would found an institute for experimental psychology at the University of Vienna ; he was also promised financial means for the purchase of equipment, but the university did not assign him suitable premises. He could no longer use a temporary arrangement made available to him, as he was appointed full professor of philosophy at the University of Innsbruck in 1896 . In Innsbruck he became a member of the striking student union Akademischer Gesangsverein . Here he was able to get the Ministry to approve the establishment of an institute for experimental psychology at the University of Innsbruck in 1897. The institute was initially housed in a room in the city hospital; From 1904 onwards, some rooms in the newly constructed building could be provided for the subjects of physics, meteorology, hygiene and physiology for psychology.

Hillebrand was married to Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand from 1920 .

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At the University of Innsbruck, the focus of his research was the experimental investigation of spatial perception. His contributions to the determinants of spatial perception, to the geometry of spatial perception, the relationship between perceived size and observation distance and his investigations into the stability of visual perception represent fundamental and internationally recognized results of perception research. He also taught philosophy, especially epistemology, and logic observed Hillebrand as the theory of science .

In 1910 he headed the 4th Congress for Experimental Psychology in Innsbruck.

His successor in the chair was the philosopher and psychologist Theodor Paul Erismann in 1926 .

Fonts

• Franz Hillebrand (1891). The new theories of categorical inferences .
• Franz Hillebrand (1896). On the theory of hypothesis formation .
• Franz Hillebrand (1896). Experimental psychology, its development and its tasks . [Inaugural lecture at the University of Innsbruck, given on October 19, 1896]. Published in: Journal Psychologie des Alltagshandelns / Psychology of Everyday Activity, Vol. 11 / No. 1 [2018], pp. 47–63 (edited by Joachim Gatterer, Peter Goller , Pierre Sachse).
• Franz Hillebrand (1902). Theory of apparent magnitude in binocular vision. Memoranda of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Vienna, mathematical and natural science class, vol. 72 , 255-307.
• Franz Hillebrand (1920). The rest of the objects when looking. Yearbooks of Psychiatry and Neurology, 40, 213.
• Franz Hillebrand (1929). Doctrine of the sensations of the face .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Benetka. History of the Faculty of Psychology. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
2. ^ Albin Kulhanek: Chronicle of the AGV Innsbruck 1863-1906 . Innsbruck 2003, p. 92 .
3. ↑ Manfred Ritter (1996). Brief outline of the history of the Institute for Psychology at the University of Innsbruck [1]

literature

• Franklin, CL: Dr. Hillebrand's syllogistic scheme. Mind (NS) 1 (1892) 4, 527-530