Hans Henning (psychologist)

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Hans Henning (born February 15, 1885 in Strasbourg , † April 9, 1946 in Baden-Baden ) was a German psychologist , known for his research on smell .

Life

The son of Germanist Rudolf Henning and his wife Adele, a daughter of Rudolf Virchow , attended the Frauenfeld grammar school until 1905 and studied natural sciences and psychology in Freiburg / Br., Strasbourg, Zurich and Berlin. In 1911 Henning received his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg under Clemens Baeumker and from 1914 to 1922 he was an assistant at the Psychological Institute of the Goethe University in Frankfurt , where in 1916 the habilitation on smell took place. In 1922 he was appointed professor of philosophy, psychology and education at the Technical University of Danzig in order to ensure the necessary training for the teaching examination. There he was given a leave of absence in 1934 for so-called “racial” reasons (marriage to a Jewish woman) after the NSDAP's election victory in Danzig and in 1936 he retired. In addition, after Erich Rothacker, he was known as a democrat and cosmopolitan .

In 1916 Henning developed the so-called " Henning prism ", a system in which six basic smells (spicy, flowery, fruity, resinous, putrid, burnt) are assigned to the corners of a prism and corresponding transitions are specified for the body of the prism. He tried to combine his chemical systematics of smells with the smell prism (smell perception). Similarly, he examined the taste . His teachings in Frankfurt and Danzig are summarized in the “Psychology of the Present” (1925). One pupil and successor was Walter Ehrenstein , who of course also benefited from his forced departure. As a result of his father's follow-up, his book on Nordic philosophy defended the idea of ​​an independent Nordic culture against the high Mediterranean culture. He also dealt with parapsychology .

Fonts

  • Analysis of modern epistemology with special consideration of the problem of reality , dissertation University of Strasbourg 1911
  • Epistemological Maze , Strasbourg 1912
  • Ernst Mach as a philosopher, physicist and psychologist. A monograph , Barth, Leipzig 1915
  • Einstein's theory of relativity in the light of experimental psychology and philosophical realism , Barth, Leipzig 1922
  • Manual of biological working methods . Dept. 6, Part A, H. 4 Psychological Methods for Investigating the Sense of Taste , Berlin 1922
  • The smell. A manual , revised. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1924 [= revised. Habilitation thesis from 1916]
  • Psychology of the Present , Mauritius, Berlin 1925; Kröner, Leipzig 1931 and 1932
  • Origin of Nordic philosophy. The oldest cultural sources north of the Alps , Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1933

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ralph Stöwer: Erich Rothacker: His life and his science of people , Göttingen 2012, p. 106
  2. ^ Neuroscientific Society
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1946
Place of death Baden-Baden