Horst Gundlach (psychologist)

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Horst Gundlach (* 1944 in Merseburg ) is a German psychologist .

Career

He grew up in Hamburg and Karlsruhe and studied psychology and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich . In 1969 he was in Heidelberg psychologist and doctorate in 1973 for Dr. phil. The topic of his dissertation was stimulus, on the use of a term in psychology . He initially worked at the Psychological Institute in Heidelberg. In 1982 Horst Gundlach became an assistant at the Institute for the History of Modern Psychology at the University of Passau . In 1989 he completed his habilitation. From 2008/09 until his retirement he headed the Adolf Würth Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Würzburg with Armin Stock . After retiring from active university service, he returned to Heidelberg. One of his main research interests is the history of psychology.

Horst Gundlach is a member of the German Society for Psychology and the Society for the History of Science.

Works (selection)

  • Inventory of the older experimental apparatus in the Heidelberg Psychological Institute and some historical remarks , Heidelberg, 1978.
  • Inventory of the older experimental apparatus in the Heidelberg Psychological Institute and some historical remarks , Heidelberg, 1986.
  • Origin and subject of psychophysics , Berlin et al., 1993.
  • Studies on the history of psychology and psychotechnology , Munich, Vienna, 1996.
  • Wilhelm Windelband and Psychology. Philosophy and the Science of Psychology in the German Empire , Heidelberg, 2017.
  • Jochmann and his rediscoverers - Werner Kraft, Wilhelm Kütemeyer, Walter Benjamin , in: Carl Gustav Jochmann - Traces of a Late Enlightenment in the 19th and 20th Centuries (= Jochmann Studies, 1), Heidelberg, 2017, pp. 63–69.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author profile
personal data
SURNAME Gundlach, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg