Gustav Wilhelm Störring

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Gustav Störring's grave in the Göttingen city ​​cemetery

Gustav Wilhelm Störring (born August 24, 1860 in Voerde in Westphalia, † December 1, 1946 in Göttingen ) was a German psychologist and philosopher .

Life

After studying theology , philosophy and medicine Störring was 1889 in Halle-Wittenberg Dr. phil. and in 1897 in Würzburg (with a work that he had done with Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond at the Physiological Institute of the University of Berlin ) as Dr. med. PhD. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Bonn . He then took up a medical position at the mental hospitals in Hubertusburg and Leipzig. At the same time Störring worked for Wilhelm Wundt at the Psychological Institute of the University of Leipzig , where he completed his habilitation in 1896.

In 1897 Störring opened a private sanatorium near Leipzig. In 1902 he accepted a position at the University of Zurich as a professor of philosophy, education and psychology. In 1911 Störring was first full professor in Strasbourg and in 1914 full professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Bonn . In 1927 he retired.

Störring, with his work “The judging and conclusive thinking in causal treatment” (1926), is considered a pioneer of deductive thinking in psychology . He was the founding editor of the second German-language psychological journal, the Archive for All Psychology .

Störring also dealt with questions of the philosophy of religion . According to Störring, the assertion of the reality of God can be described as scientifically founded.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lectures on psychopathology in its meaning for normal psychology, including the psychological foundations of knowledge theory. Engelmann, Leipzig 1900.
  • Psychology of the human emotional life. Cohen, Bonn 1916.
  • The question of the truth of the Christian religion. Engelmann, Leipzig 1920.
  • Judging and conclusive thinking in causal treatment. Academic Publishing Company, Leipzig 1926.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 220.
  2. ^ A b c Andreas Maercker : History of the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich. 2007, p. 3.
  3. ^ F. Peter (edit.): Directory of lecturers at the University of Zurich. Summer semester 1833 to winter semester 1937/38. 1938, p. 982 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schönpflug , Ute Schönpflug: Psychology. General psychology and its branches into developmental, personality and social psychology. A textbook for undergraduate studies. 4th edition. Beltz, Weinheim 1983, pp. 190 ff.
  5. ↑ Gustav Störring: The question of the truth of the Christian religion. Leipzig 1920, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Störring, Gustav Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Voerde , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1946
Place of death Goettingen