Géza Révész

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Géza Révész, 1953

Géza Révész (born December 9, 1878 in Siófok , Austria-Hungary , † August 19, 1955 in Amsterdam ) was a Hungarian-Dutch psychologist .

Life

After studying law, Géza Révész moved to the University of Göttingen, where he studied psychology under Georg Elias Müller and graduated with a doctorate in 1906. His friendship with his fellow student David Katz later led to a collaboration in several investigations. In 1908 he returned to Budapest, where he was appointed professor of experimental psychology at the university. He also lectured at the Military Academy, which earned him the reputation of being the first to develop psychological tests for teachers at that academy. He founded the first psychological institute in Hungary.

From 1910 on, Révész was interested in the “child prodigy” Ervin Nyíregyházi , whom he observed for four years. He compared him to Mozart because Nyíregyházi also composed at the age of six, and Révész drew the picture of a manically creative child who got up at six in the morning to start composing straight away. Nyíregyházi had perfect pitch , a phenomenal memory, and could remember the score of a symphony once he had read it. Blindfolded, he beat the best chess players in Budapest. Révész met a precision fanatic who expressed himself with exaggerated precision, suffered from overconfidence at a very early stage, but who was all in all the amiability in person. The study was published in Leipzig in 1916 and became a classic in its field.

After the end of the Soviet Republic , Révész emigrated to the Netherlands . From 1923 he held lectures on industrial psychology here, and when he was a Dutch citizen , he became a professor at the City University of Amsterdam in 1932 , where he founded a psychological institute. In 1935 he published the magazine "Acta Psychologica" until the Netherlands was occupied by the National Socialists in World War II. In 1950 the magazine was reissued and Révész remained its editor until his death.

In 1949 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Act

His work spanned very different areas. His early interest was centered on visual perception, and later he dealt with the psychological aspects of music ( music psychology ). He carried out tests on the sense of touch and identified those elements of tactile perception that are not controlled by the optical and acoustic senses ( sensory psychology ). This research brought him in contact with the blind and Révész, moved by compassion, conducted studies on the personal lives of the blind. He was also interested in the fundamental differences between humans and animals and in this context produced his study on the origins of languages ​​( language psychology ).

In addition, he dealt with social psychology as well as the psychology of talent and thinking.

In Siófok , Géza-Révész-Strasse ( Révész Géza utca ) and the Révész Géza utcai stadion of the local soccer club Bodajk FC Siófok are named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Erwin Nyiregyházi : psychological analysis of a musically excellent child . (Leipzig, 1916)
  • The early appearance of talent: and its recognition. 1921
  • Examination of musicality. 1920
  • The world of forms of the sense of touch. First volume. Basics of haptics and the psychology of the blind. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, 1938.
  • The world of forms of the sense of touch. Second volume. Form aesthetics and plastic for the blind. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, 1938.
  • Psychology and Art of the Blind (1950)
  • The human hand. Karger publishing house, 1944
    • engl. Edition: The Human Hand (1958)
  • Introduction to music psychology. 1946
  • Origin and history of the language. 1946
    • engl. Edition: The Origins and Prehistory of Language (1956)
  • The importance of psychology for science, for the practice and for the academic training of psychologists. 1947
  • Analysis of creative activity. Talent and genius. Francke Bern. 1952
  • The triad: analysis of the dual and triple systems. Bayer publishing house. Akad. D. Knowledge Munich, 1957

Vittorio V. Busati: Leve De Psychology! honderd jaar psychological wetenschap aan de UvA . (100 years of psychological science at the UvA.) Publisher: Bakker, 2007 in Dutch. ISBN 978-90-351-3255-9

Sources and References

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Géza Révész , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ The soccer stadium in Siófok

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personal data
SURNAME Révész, Géza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Dutch psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Siófok , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1955
Place of death Amsterdam