Gustav A. Lienert

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Gustav Adolf Lienert (born December 13, 1920 in Michelsdorf near Landskron in the Bohemian-Moravian language island of Schönhengstgau ; † May 8, 2001 in Marburg ) was a German-Austrian psychologist .

Life

Youth and student days

After completing primary school and high school, Lienert was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1939 and taken over from there by the Wehrmacht. Because of his desire to study medicine, he joined the medical service. After military operations in France and before Stalingrad , Lienert was allowed to begin studying medicine in Vienna in the winter semester of 1942/43. In the summer semester he was transferred to the student company in Breslau , where he was able to take his physics course in 1944. After the attempted coup against Hitler , this company was disbanded and its members were transferred to the front as so-called field medical officers. After a brief captivity, Lienert was able to study one semester in Innsbruck in 1945 , where he came into contact with Theodor Paul Erismann and Ivo Kohler and got to know an empirical-experimental psychology. In 1945/46 he continued to study medicine in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1950 as a Dr. med. At the same time he also attended psychological courses with Hubert Rohracher , statistics with Erich Mittenecker and depth psychology with Walter Toman . Rohracher offered Lienert to do his doctorate with him, which he also did in 1952 with a thesis on "Effects of caffeine on memory" . Lienert received his medical license for Germany in 1972.

academic career

After a short period of compulsory assistantship in Vienna, Lienert moved to the University of Marburg to the experimentally oriented precursor institute of today's Department of Psychology founded by Heinrich Düker . From 1953 to 1961 he was employed there as an assistant (subject areas statistics and diagnostics). Research assignments from the pharmaceutical industry were also carried out, for which Lienert could use his medical license. In 1961 Lienert completed his habilitation with the work “Stress and Regression” , in which he argued that psychotropic drugs (LSD, sleeping pills) lead to a regression of psychological functions from adulthood to puberty. Shortly after completing the proceedings, he received a call for an a. o. Professorship in Hamburg, largely supported by Peter Hofstätter , who saw Lienert as a successor to Kurt Bondy because of his book "Test Structure and Test Analysis" .

In 1964 Lienert was offered a professorship at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf ; he was supposed to set up the first institute in which psychology for medical students was taught. In addition to intensive academic teaching, establishing international contact, especially with the Danube countries, was an important concern for Lienert. He has also been invited to the USA, the GDR and the USSR as a speaker. In 1974 Lienert accepted a call to the educational science faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in order to gain freedom for his research and lecturing activities . In 1983 Lienert was appointed honorary professor at the University of Vienna, where he regularly held courses on the subject of psychopharmacology ; similar courses were offered by Lienert at the University of Würzburg at the invitation of Wilhelm Jahnke . Lienert had been emeritus at the Faculty of Education since 1984, but continued to lead a busy life and was known to train passengers as the "man with the white coat and the borsalino" .

Grave of Gustav A. Lienert in the main cemetery in Marburg (2017)

As the motto for his tomb, Lienert chose the motto from the tombstone of a US colleague: "Called to rest from a hobby called science".

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According to Lienert's own assessment, his most important technical articles concern configuration frequency analysis , a statistical method for the identification of types and syndromes. His interests in the field of statistics led to further publications focusing on so-called non-distribution procedures . A milestone for the development of psychological diagnostics in Germany was his work Test Setup and Test Analysis . As a by-product, Lienert developed a number of psychological test procedures (e.g. the legendary Lienert wire bending test , the concentration performance test , brain teaser tests or the general office work test).

Honors

Lienert was a tireless supporter of young scientists. In addition to his personal suggestions, he set up the “Lienert Foundation” and the “Lienert Archive” to promote young talent in biopsychological methodology.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander von Eye (2001). In Memoriam Gustav A. Lienert. Psychological Rundschau, 52, p. 226.
  2. ^ Gustav A. Lienert. In: EK Wehner (Ed.): Psychology in self-portrayals. Volume 3, Huber, Bern 1992, pp. 163-174.
  3. ^ Gustav A. Lienert, Joachim Krauth: The configuration frequency analysis (KFA) and its application in psychology and medicine . Karl Alber, Freiburg 1973.
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160716103456/https://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/~g61476/lienert-stiftung/
  5. ↑ Working group for neuropsychopharmacology and pharmacopsychiatry http://www.agnp.de/
  6. ↑ dgpa.de

selected Writings

  • Test setup and test analysis . Beltz, Weinheim 1961.
  • Distribution-free methods in biostatistics . Hain, Meisenheim 1962.
  • Brief statistics for clinical research . Springer, Berlin 1988.
  • with Joachim Krauth: The configuration frequency analysis (KFA) and its application in psychology and medicine . Beltz, Weinheim 1973.
  • School grade evaluation . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • General office work test. Verlag für Psychologie Hogrefe, Göttingen 1974.

Literature about Gustav A. Lienert

  • Alexander von Eye: In Memoriam Gustav A. Lienert. In: Psychological Rundschau. 52 (4), 2001, pp. 225-239.
  • W. Jahnke (Ed.): Contributions to the methodology in differential, diagnostic and clinical psychology. Hain, Meinsenheim 1981
  • Gustav A. Lienert. In: EK Wehner (Ed.): Psychology in self-portrayals. Volume 3, Huber, Bern 1992, pp. 163-174
  • Wilhelm Janke, Petra Netter, Lothar Tent: Gustav Adolf Lienert: Stations of his scientific life . Pabst, Lengerich 2005, ISBN 3-89967-139-2 .
  • Melita Tilley: On the way with Lienert: Books I and II for the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. Sc.hc mult. GA Lienert. Pabst, Lengerich 2000, ISBN 3-935357-23-0 .
  • Honor for Gustav Lienert. In: Psychological Rundschau. 52 (2), 2001, pp. 109-110.

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personal data
SURNAME Lienert, Gustav A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lienert, Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Michelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2001
Place of death Marburg