Franz Müller-Lyer

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Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (born February 5, 1857 , Baden-Baden ; † October 29, 1916 , Munich ) was a German psychiatrist , sociologist and writer .

Müller-Lyer studied medicine and worked as a doctor in psychiatric clinics in Strasbourg and other cities in Europe. In 1889 he discovered the geometrical-optical Müller-Lyer illusion named after him .

Works (selection)

  • The stages of human development. A systematic sociology in overviews and individual presentations. 8 volumes, Albert Langen, Munich 1910
  • Sociology of suffering. Albert Langen, Munich 1914

literature

  • Rudolf Eisler : F. Müller-Lyer, as a sociologist and cultural philosopher. A. Langen, Munich 1922, OCLC 12146382
  • In memory of Müller-Lyer. A. Langen, Munich 1926, OCLC 5305558
  • Lewis Anthony Bernardi: An experimental study of the perceptual responses of paranoid schizophrenics on the Müller-Lyer illusion. Dissertation. Ohio University, June 1959, OCLC 45187813
  • Sigrid Curth: Sociology as a program of social reform: evolution theory and democratic action: F. Müller-Lyer. (Series of publications by the Study Society for Social History and the Labor Movement; Volume 55). Publishers labor movement and social sciences , Marburg 1986, ISBN 3-921630-60-6
  • Andrea EsserMüller-Lyer, Franz Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 503 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Reinard Goll (ed.): Beginnings of future research: Müller-Lyer and the problem of future control. With a foreword by Klaus Norbert Scheffler. Ed. hermeneus, Barßel ​​2003, ISBN 3-9804332-2-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jeannette Redensek : Manufacturing Community: Architecture, tradition, and the Sociology of community in Germany, from 1890 to 1920. ProQuest , 2007, p. 191. ISBN 9780549257790