Joseph Jastrow

Joseph Jastrow

Joseph Jastrow (born January 30, 1863 in Warsaw , † January 8, 1944 in Stockbridge ) was an American psychologist .

Life

Jastrow came to the United States in 1866 as the son of Rabbi Marcus Jastrow . He received his doctorate from Granville Stanley Hall in 1887 - the first scientist in the USA to specialize in psychology. In 1888 he got a call to the University of Wisconsin – Madison . The local chair for psychology built up Jastrow and kept it until 1927. From 1927 to 1933 he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City .

In 1893 Jastrow was head of the psychology department at the World's Columbian Exposition . In 1900 he was president of the American Psychological Association .

He is the author of several specialist and popular science books on Sigmund Freud , on parapsychology and general psychology . Jastrow was co-editor of Psychological Review and other academic and popular science journals.

Joseph Jastrow was married to Rachel Szold, the sister of Henrietta Szold .

See also

• Jastrow illusion

Fonts (selection)

• The Time-Relations of Mental Phenomena. NDC Hodges, New York NY 1890, ( digitized ).
• Aspects of Modern Psychology. In: Hermann Oldenberg , Joseph Jastrow, Carl Heinrich Cornill : Epitomes of Three Sciences. Comparative Philology, Psychology, and Old Testament History. The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago IL 1890, pp. 57-100 .
• Fact and Fable in Psychology. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston MA et al. 1900, ( digitized ).
• The subconscious. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston MA et al. 1906, ( digitized ).
• The Qualities of Men. An Essay in Appreciation. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston MA et al. 1910, ( digitized ).
• Character and temperament. D. Appleton and Company, New York NY et al. 1915, ( digitized ).

literature

• Jastrow, Joseph. In: The Encyclopedia Americana , 1920 ( text from Wikisource )
• Werner F. Bonin: The great psychologists. From soul science to behavioral science. Researchers, therapists and doctors (= ETB 10026 Hermes Handlexikon ). Econ-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10026-2 .

Web links

Wikisource: Texts by Joseph Jastrow  - sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 321.