Johannes von Kries

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Johannes Adolf von Kries (born October 6, 1853 in Roggenhausen , West Prussia , † December 30, 1928 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physiologist .

biography

Von Kries studied medicine in Halle , Leipzig and Zurich . He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1876 and completed his habilitation in physiology in 1878 . He was appointed associate professor in Freiburg in 1880 and full professor of physiology in 1883. Also in 1883 he became director of the Physiological Institute. He retired in 1924.

He was with Hermann Ebbinghaus co-founder of the Journal of Psychology , worked under Hermann von Helmholtz and united the three-color theory with the opponent process of Ewald Hering to Kries zone theory , which comprises the phenomena of color vision describes in humans. In 1888 he founded the theory of causality on adequacy .

Kries was awarded the order Pour le mérite for science and the arts . In 1882 Kries was appointed a member of the Leopoldina . In 1909 he became an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Since 1917 he was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and since 1923 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

He was also an honorary citizen of the Technical University of Karlsruhe .

Works

  • About the determination of the mean pressure by the mercury manometer . Arch Anat Physiol (Physiol Abt) (1878) 419.
  • About the concept of objective possibility and some applications of the same. Quarterly journal for scientific philosophy 12 (1888), 179, 287 ff.
  • Logic. Fundamentals of a critical and formal doctrine of judgment . Tubingen, 1916.
  • About the origin and order of human movements . Freiburg im Breisgau 1918.
  • General sensory physiology . Leipzig 1923.

literature

  • Johannes von Kries: Johannes von Kries. In: Ludwig R. Grote (ed.): Medicine in self-portrayals. Leipzig 1925, vol. 4, p. 125
  • Johannes von Kries: history of the family von Kries. 1912
  • Karl Eduard Rothschuh: History of Physiology. Berlin 1953, p. 128
  • Heinz Walter:  Kries, Johannes von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 46 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ceremony for Johannes von Kries on his 70th birthday . Pflügers Arch 201 (1923) 1
  • Münchn Med Wochenschr 76 (1929) 922

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen, Erich, in: Members of the Federal Court of Justice (Hrsg.), The Civil Code with special consideration of the case law of the Reich Court and the Federal Court of Justice, Commentary, 12th edition, § 823 Rn. 79.
  2. ^ Member entry of Johannes Adolf von Kries at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Johannes von Kries. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 140.

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personal data
SURNAME Kries, Johannes von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kries, Johannes Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Roggenhausen , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1928
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau