Hans Heinrich Muchow

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Hans Heinrich Muchow (born April 3, 1900 in Hamburg ; † November 30, 1981 ) was a German psychologist and educator .

Life

After attending school, Muchow studied psychology and pedagogy and worked, among other things, as senior student adviser at a grammar school in Hamburg and as head of an educational counseling center.

As a psychologist, he dealt in particular with psychology, sexual maturity and the social structure of young people as well as questions about the spirit of the times , sexually transmitted diseases and gender education. He recorded this work and research results in numerous specialist books and articles in specialist journals . His most famous publications include:

  • Flail Years , 1950
  • Youth in Transition , 1953
  • The school is dead, long live the school! , 1956
  • Sexual maturity and social structure of youth , 1959
  • Youth and Zeitgeist , 1962
  • That concerns you! , 1963
  • Young generations through the ages , 1964
  • About the source value of the autobiography for the zeitgeist research . In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte , 1966, pp. 299–310.

Some works such as Sexualreife und Sozialstruktur der Jugend und Flageljahre also appeared in Portuguese and Spanish translations under the titles Juventude e desenvolvimento sexual em sociedade (1967) and La edad de las travesuras (1969).

Muchow was the younger brother of the psychologist Martha Muchow, who died in 1933 as a result of a suicide attempt . In 1935 he published their most important book, Der Lebensraum des Großstadtkindes . In 1949 he published another book by his sister Martha Muchow, From the World of the Child .

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literature

  • Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 923
  • Bertelsmann Universal Lexikon , Volume 12, Gütersloh 1990, p. 176

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice of death in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 18, 1981
  2. Detlef Siegfried: Time is on my side: Consumption and politics in the West German youth culture of the 1960s , 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0073-3, p. 94
  3. Sexual maturity and social structure of youth (sachbuchforschung.de)
  4. Martha Muchow / Hans Heinrich Muchow: The living space of the big city child (Google Books)
  5. Barbara Friebertshäuser, Antje Langer, Annedore Prengel: Handbook Qualitative Research Methods in Educational Science , p. 319