Heinz Werner (psychologist)
Heinz Werner (born February 11, 1890 in Vienna , † May 14, 1964 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) was an Austrian-Jewish psychologist.
Career history
Heinz Werner received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1915. His dissertation was entitled: On the Psychology of Aesthetic Enjoyment , Vienna 1916. He initially worked as an assistant in Munich and from 1917 onwards he began working with William Stern in Hamburg . From the establishment of the Psychological Institute at the new Hamburg University until 1933, Heinz Werner was head of the psychological laboratory there.
Due to the National Socialist law to restore the civil service of April 7, 1933, he was removed from office like Stern and emigrated to the USA in the same year, where he initially worked at the University of Michigan from 1933 to 1936 . Other stations by Heinz Werner were Harvard University (1936/37), Wayne County Training School (1937-1943) and finally Brooklyn College (1943-1947) in New York.
In 1947, after the war, he became Professor of Psychology at Clark University , Worcester, MA . There the former Institute of Developmental Psychology was soon renamed the Heinz Werner Institute of Developmental Psychological Research . In 1956 Werner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Works
Heinz Werner's main work is: Introduction to Developmental Psychology , 1926 and Comparative Psychology of Mental Development , 1940. ( Table of contents at acsu.buffalo.edu (English)) The work was created in collaboration with William Stern , Ernst Cassirer , Jakob Johann von Uexküll , Martha Muchow and Gertrud Grunow . As stated in the preface, the 4th edition from 1959 tries to preserve the interrupted tradition of biological and psychological German research before 1933.
literature
- H. Witkin: Heinz Werner 1890–1964 . In: Child Development. 36, 1965, pp. 307-328. (Obituary and list of scriptures )
- Harold McWhinnie: Carl Jung and Heinz Werner and Implications for Foundational Studies in Art Education and Art Therapy. In: The Arts in Psychotherapy. 12, 1985, pp. 95-99.
- Jaan Valsiner (Ed.): Heinz Werner and Developmental Science. 2005, ISBN 0-306-47909-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1964 |
| Place of death | Worcester , Massachusetts |