Kurt Müller (psychologist)
Kurt Müller (born August 23, 1921 in Mainz ; † October 17, 2015 ) was a German psychologist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Career
After studying psychology and graduating in 1951 , he did his doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under Edwin Rausch with a thesis on local memory. In Frankfurt, after his habilitation in 1962 - the subject of the habilitation thesis came from the psychology of perception - he was initially a private lecturer , two years later an academic adviser ; again two years later he received his first professorship. In 1968 he followed a call to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he held the chair for general psychology for twenty years as the successor to Philipp Lersch until his retirement . From 1971 to 1975, Müller was also director of the Bavarian State Institute for Early Education .
Müller's special interests were in the mind -body problem and the psychology of perception, with special emphasis on gestalt psychological approaches.
Works (selection)
- About the role of reference areas in localization. Experimental studies on the problem d. Local memory . Dissertation . Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
- The build-up of figural-optical phenomena with successive irritation . Habilitation thesis . Kramer, Frankfurt 1963.
- with Elke Natorp: Child and youth psychology for education and social professions. 8th edition. TR-Verlagsunion, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-8058-2523-4 . (formerly under the titles of child and youth psychology for educators and telecolleg for educators. Psychology , first 1974)
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar - bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Humanities and social sciences . de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISSN 1433-9161 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Müller, Kurt (1984): About the spread of the homunculus language in psychology. Gestalt Theory, 6 (3).
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Müller, Kurt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 2015 |