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.

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)

Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar - bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Humanities and social sciences . de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISSN 1433-9161 .

personal data
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