Gottlob Friedrich Lipps

GF Lipps, 1914

Gottlob Friedrich Lipps (born August 6, 1865 in Albersweiler ; † March 9, 1931 in Zurich ) was a philosopher and psychologist .

Life

The half-brother of the philosopher and psychologist Theodor Lipps attended grammar school in Zweibrücken and studied mathematics, physics, philosophy and psychology from 1883 to 1887, first in Leipzig with Wilhelm Wundt , then also in Munich. After he had passed the examination for candidates for the higher education authority, he received his doctorate in 1888 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . He then worked as a teacher at the grammar school in Hagenau and from 1893 to 1902 at the secondary school in Strasbourg . From April 5, 1902, he was a senior teacher for mathematics and physics on the college of the newly established Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig. In 1904 he qualified as a professor at the University of Leipzig, where he subsequently received a private lectureship. From 1909 to 1911 he was an associate professor of philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In 1911 he was appointed full professor of philosophy and education and director of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Zurich . He dealt with psychophysics and statistical and experimental methodology.

Works

• The logical basis of the mathematical concept of function. 1888
• Grundriß der Psychophysik , 1899; 3rd A. 1908
• Investigations into the basics of mathematics Philosophical studies IX – XII
• The theory of collective objects 1902
• The measurement methods of experimental psychology 1904
• The psychological methods of measurement 1906
• Myth formation and knowledge 1907
• Outline of Psychophysics 3. A. 1908
• Weltanschauung and ideal of education in 1911

literature

• Robert Honegger: GF Lipps' life's work . In: Archives for the entire psychology , Vol. 84 (1932), Issue 3/4, pp. 305–329, ISSN  0724-7842 .

Web links

• Catalog raisonné [1]
• Google books Myth-Making and Knowledge, a Treatise on the Basics of Philosophy [2]
• Entry in Eisler Philosophen-Lexikon [3]
• Entry of the professor catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Literature by and about Gottlob Friedrich Lipps in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the courses given by Gottlob Friedrich Lipps at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1904 to winter semester 1911)